Excimer laser "corneal shaping": A new technique for customized trephination in penetrating keratoplasty. First experimental results in rabbits

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 423-431

  Schmitz, Klaus ^a   Schreiber, Wolfram ^a   Behrens Baumann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; BOROSCOPOL; DEXAGEL; DEXAMETHASONE; EYE DROPS; NEOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; POLYMYXIN B; POLYSPECTRAN; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXCIMER LASER; FOLLOW UP; LASER; LENS; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037564936     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0646-4     Document Type: Article

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