Diode laser thermokeratoplasty - First clinical experience;Dioden-laserthermokeratoplastik: Erste klinische erfahrungen

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 306-311

  Geerling, Gerd ^a   Koop, Norbert ^b   Tüngler, Andreas ^b   Brinkmann, Ralf ^b   Wirbelauer, Christopher ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^b   Laqua, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical study; Diodelaser; Hyperopia; Laser thermokeratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOPLASTY; LASER COAGULATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032995081     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003470050410     Document Type: Article

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