Impact of head advance and oscillation rate on the flap parameter: A comparison of two microkeratomes

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-153

  Hoffmann, Stefanie ^a   Krummenauer, Frank ^a   Tehrani, Mana ^a   Dick, H Burkhard ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE REFRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RANK SUM TEST; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGN TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; TISSUE FLAP; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; INSTRUMENTATION; KERATOMILEUSIS; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CORNEAL STROMA; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; SURGICAL FLAPS; SWINE;

EID: 0037315958     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0599-z     Document Type: Article

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