Photorefractive keratectomy for -1.25 to -25.00 Diopters of myopia

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 615-622

  Pietilä, Juhani ^a,b   Mäkinen, Petri ^b   Pajari, Seppo ^a   Uusitalo, Hannu ^b  

^a Kirurgipalvelu   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CORNEA; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031704358     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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