Corneal and epithelial thickness changes after 4 weeks of overnight corneal refractive therapy lens wear, measured with optical coherence tomography

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 189-193

  Haque, Sameena ^a   Fonn, Desmond ^a   Simpson, Trefford ^a   Jones, Lyndon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corneal refractive therapy; Corneal swelling; Epithelium; Optical coherence tomography; Orthokeratology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONVALESCENCE; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL REFRACTIVE THERAPY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGHT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RIGIDITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM CELL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; MYOPIA; PATHOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 16544363969     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000140223.60892.16     Document Type: Article

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