The regularity of laser keratectomy depth in nonmechanical trephination for penetrating keratoplasty

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-42

  Seitz, Berthold ^a,b   Langenbucher, Achim ^a   Fischer, Susanne ^a   Kus, Murat M ^a   Vilchis, Ernesto ^a   Naumann, Gottfried O H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; AUTOMATION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DEVICE; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031964273     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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