Use of large optical zones with the LADARVision laser for myopia and myopic astigmatism

Ophthalmology

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1384-1390

  Nepomuceno, Richard L ^a,b   Wachler, Brian S Boxer ^a,b   Sato, Michelle ^b   Scruggs, Ryan ^a,b  

^a Boxer Wachler Vision Institute   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCIMER LASER; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MYOPIA; NOMOGRAM; OPTIC DISK; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTACLES; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037478971     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(03)00407-X     Document Type: Article

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