Excimer laser for various degrees of myopia. A new model estimating the immediate response, the regression, the final response and the time relationship

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-137

  Edmund, Carsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Excimer laser; Mathematical model corticosteroids; Myopia; Refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CORNEA CURVATURE; EXCIMER LASER; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031967331     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.1998.760201.x     Document Type: Article

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