Long-term corneal morphology after PRK by in vivo confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1064-1069

  Moilanen, Jukka A O ^a,c   Vesaluoma, Minna H ^a   Müller, Linda J ^b   Tervo, Timo M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATECTOMY; MALE; MYOPIA; NERVE FIBER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SLIT LAMP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037336153     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0247     Document Type: Article

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