Effects of ablation diameter, depth, and edge contour on the outcome of photorefractive keratectomy

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-60

  O'Brart, David P S ^a,b   Corbett, Melanie C ^a   Verma, Seema ^a   Heacock, Greg ^a   Oliver, Katherine M ^c   Lohmann, Chris P ^a,d   Kerr Muir, Malcolm G ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA OPACITY; EXCIMER LASER; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGHT VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NIGHT BLINDNESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030034688     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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