Femtosecond laser-assisted posterior lamellar keratoplasty: Initial studies of surgical technique in eye bank eyes

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-49

  Soong, H Kaz ^a,d   Mian, Shahzad ^a   Abbasi, Omar ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^a,b,c  

^a External Disease   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c IntraLase Corp   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EYEBANK; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; KERATOPLASTY; LASER; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE BANKS; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

EID: 11344289671     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.06.037     Document Type: Article

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