Two-year results of photorefractive keratectomy with scanning spot ablation for myopia of less than -6.0 Diopters

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 904-908

  Ozdamar, Akif ^a,b   Aras, Cengiz ^a   Sener, Bozkurt ^a   Bahcecioglu, Halil ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Valikonagi Caddesi ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; MALE; MYOPIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031755565     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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