Clinical effects of the Nd:YAG laser operating in the photodisruptive and thermal modes: A review

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-16

  Fankhauser, Franz ^a   Kwasniewska, Sylwia ^a  

^a Lindenhofspital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical application; Continuous mode; Free running mode; Fundamental mode; KTP laser; Multimode; Nd:YAG laser; Photodisruptive mode; Thermal mode

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GLYCEROL; STEROID;

ADHESION; APHAKIA; ARGON LASER; BUPHTHALMOS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOBOMA; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA PERFORATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; IRIDECTOMY; IRIS COLOBOMA; LASER COAGULATION; MICROSURGERY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; REVIEW; SOLID STATE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PERFUSION; TRABECULECTOMY; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM; YAG LASER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037265608     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068240     Document Type: Review

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