Corneal epithelial wound healing after excimer laser photorefractive and photoastigmatic keratectomy (PRK and PARK)

Cornea

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-28

  Detorakis, Efstathios T ^a   Siganos, Dimitrios S ^a   Kozobolis, Vassilios P ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corneal epithelial healing; Laser refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIZATION; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATECTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032900433     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-199901000-00005     Document Type: Article

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