Stromal wound healing explains refractive instability and haze development after photorefractive keratectomy: A 1-year confocal microscopic study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1235-1245

  Moller Pedersen, Torben ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^b   Petroll, W Matthew ^b   Jester, James V ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; MALE; MYOPIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NERVE REGENERATION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; VISION DISORDERS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033756170     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(00)00142-1     Document Type: Article

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