Initial clinical experience with the picosecond Nd:YLF laser for intraocular therapeutic applications

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 504-509

  Geerling, Gerd ^a,c   Roider, Johann ^a   Schmidt Erfurt, Ursula ^a   Nahen, Kester ^b   El Hifnawi, El Sayed ^a   Laqua, Horst ^a   Vogel, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAPSULORHEXIS; CAPSULOTOMY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTACT LENS; ENERGY; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; IRIDECTOMY; IRIDOTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LENS CAPSULE; LENS DISEASE; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTOMY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031782086     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.82.5.504     Document Type: Article

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