Three multizone photorefractive keratectomy algorithms for myopia

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 535-544

  Alpins, Noel A ^a,b   Taylor, Hugh R ^a   Kent, David G ^a   Lu, Yi ^a   Liew, Mary ^a   Couper, Terry ^a   McGough, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; FLUOROMETHOLONE; HOMATROPINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INDOMETACIN;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLARE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; IRITIS; KERATECTOMY; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030828089     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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