Keratectasia following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy [2]

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-105

  Parmar, Dipak N ^a,b   Claoué, Charles ^a  

^a WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORNEA DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LETTER; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1242320241     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1395-3907.2003.0189b.x     Document Type: Letter

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