Corneal haze among blue eyes and brown eyes after photorefractive keratectomy

Ophthalmology

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2210-2215

  Tabbara, Khalid F ^a,b,d   El Sheikh, Hisham F ^a,c   Sharara, Nariman A ^a   Aabed, Bassam ^a  

^a The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Cairo University   (Egypt)

^d NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CAUCASIAN; CORNEA DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE; FEMALE; HAZE; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0033511525     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)90507-9     Document Type: Article

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