Results of photorefractive keratectomy in keratoconus suspects at 4 years

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 438-443

  Bilgihan, Kamil ^a,b   Özdek, Sengül C ^a   Konuk, Onur ^a   Akata, Fikret ^a   Hasanreisoglu, Berati ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; ELASTICITY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; KERATOCONUS; MALE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033900373     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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