Thermal consequences of photorefractive keratectomy

Cornea

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 509-515

  Maldonado Codina, Carole ^a,b   Morgan, Philip B ^a   Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a Department of Optometry and Neuroscience   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haze; Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK); Temperature; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; KERATECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY; THERMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; HEAT; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SHEEP; THERMOGRAPHY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034977118     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200107000-00014     Document Type: Article

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