Cohesive tensile strength of human LASIK wounds with histologic, ultrastructural, and clinical correlations

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 433-445

  Schmack, Ingo ^a,b   Dawson, Daniel G ^a   McCarey, Bernard E ^a   Waring III, George O ^c   Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a   Edelhauser, Henry F ^a,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c InView   (United States)

^d EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXCIMER LASER; EYEBANK; FEMALE; FORCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCAR; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 25144431752     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20050901-04     Document Type: Article

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