Reliability of intraocular pressure measurements after myopic excimer photorefractive keratectomy

Ophthalmology

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2193-2196

  Abbasoglu, Özlem Evren ^a   Bowman, R Wayne ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a   McCulley, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATECTOMY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONOMETRY;

EID: 0032470563     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0161-6420(98)91215-5     Document Type: Article

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