LASIK complication: Loss of electricity to the microkeratome during the forward pass

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 530-532

  Tuominen, Ilpo S J ^a   Tervo, Timo M T ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complications; Cornea; LASIK; Microkeratome; Refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

EXOCIN; FLUOROMETHOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACUUM; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANISOMETROPIA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETINAL DETACHMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0142029580     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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