First clinical results with the femtosecond neodynium-glass laser in refractive surgery

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 94-103

  Ratkay Traub, Imola ^a   Ferincz, Istvan E ^b   Juhasz, Tibor ^c,d   Kurtz, Ron M ^d,e   Krueger, Ronald R ^f  

^a Focus Med Eye Micro Surg/Laser C   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d IntraLase Corp   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; DEXAMETHASONE PLUS TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; EVALUATION; EXCIMER LASER; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND NEODYMIUM GLASS LASER; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERMETROPIA; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACORNEAL RING SEGMENT; INTRASTROMAL ABLATION; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROKERATOMA; NONHUMAN; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037345992     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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