Effect of microkeratome suction during LASIK on ocular structures

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 645-649

  Mirshahi, Alireza ^a   Kohnen, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KERATOMILEUSIS; LENS; MALE; MICROKERATOMA; MYOPIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUCTION; TISSUE FLAP; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ECHOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LENS DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ASTIGMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LENS DISEASES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 16244362714     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.11.046     Document Type: Article

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