Topical vitamin E and hydrocortisone acetate treatment after photorefractive keratectomy

Eye

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-237

  Bilgihan, Kamil ^a,b   Ozdek, Sengül ^a   Ozoǧul, Candan ^a   Gurelik, Gökhan ^a   Bilgihan, Ayse ^a   Hasanreisoǧlu, Berati ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Department of Histology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hydrocortisone acetate; Photorefractive keratectomy; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; COLLAGEN; CORTIMYCINE; HYDROCORTISONE ACETATE; HYDROXYPROLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; HAZE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KERATECTOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RABBIT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034020811     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2000.60     Document Type: Article

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