Endothelial corneal damage after neodymium:YAG laser treatment: Pupillary membranectomies, iridotomies, capsulotomies

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 793-802

  Kozobolis, Vassilios P ^a,b,c   Detorakis, Efstathios T ^a,b   Vlachonikolis, Ioannis G ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Vardinoyannion Eye Inst of Crete   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULOTOMY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRIDOTOMY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALUMINUM; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIS; LASER SURGERY; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MEMBRANES; NEODYMIUM; PUPIL; YTTRIUM;

EID: 0031665977     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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