An in vivo model of femtosecond laser intrastromal refractive surgery

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 742-749

  Sletten, Karin R ^b   Yen, Kimberly ^b   Sayegh, Samir ^b   Loesel, Frieder ^b   Eckhoff, Christine ^b   Horvath, Christopher ^b   Meunier, Mali ^b   Juhasz, Tibor ^b   Kurtz, Ron M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE PLUS TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; EXCIMER LASER; GENE DISRUPTION; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFRACTION ERROR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CORNEAL STROMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASER SURGERY; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RABBITS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032719144     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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