Quality assessment model of 3 different microkeratomes through confocal microscopy

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1300-1309

  Javaloy, Jaime ^a,b   Vidal, María T ^b   Quinto, Antonio ^a   De Rojas, Victoria ^c   Alió, Jorge L ^b  

^a Inst Oftalmologico de Alicante ^*  (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROKERATOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SKIN FLAP; TISSUE SLICE; WOUND HEALING;

CORNEAL STROMA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 2942585559     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2003.10.024     Document Type: Article

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