Corneal optical coherence tomography before and immediately after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 693-699

  Wirbelauer, Christopher ^a,c   Scholz, Christian ^b   Hoerauf, Hans ^a   Engelhardt, Ralf ^b   Birngruber, Reginald ^b   Laqua, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034536577     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(00)00602-4     Document Type: Article

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