Effects of topical corticosteroids on subepithelial haze after excimer laser corneal surgery objective and quantitative method for evaluating haze

Journal of Japanese Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 152-157

  Soya, Koichi ^a,b   Obata, Hiroto ^b   Amano, Shiro ^b   Miyata, Kazunori ^b   Tsuru, Tadahiko ^b  

^a Kanto Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Excimer laser; Scattered light intensity; Subepithelial haze; Topical corticosteroid

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; EXCIMER LASER; KERATECTOMY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RABBIT; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CORNEA; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RABBITS;

EID: 0031037850     PISSN: 00290203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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