Preoperative screening of contact lens wearers before refractive surgery

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1080-1086

  Budak, Koray ^a   Hamed, Abdelmonem M ^a   Friedman, Neil J ^a   Koch, Douglas D ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA SURGERY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032781206     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0886-3350(99)00122-4     Document Type: Article

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