Therapeutic applications of lotrafilcon A silicone hydrogel soft contact lenses

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 268-269

  Özkurt, Yelda ^a,b   Rodop, Özlen ^a   Oral, Yeşim ^a   Çömez, Arzu ^a   Kandemir, Baran ^a   Doǧan, Ömer Kamil ^a  

^a Kartal Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corneal disease; Silicone hydrogel contact lens; Therapeutic contact lens

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; COPOLYMER; LOTRAFILCON A; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SILICONE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; KERATITIS; KERATOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; SOFT CONTACT LENS; VISUAL ACUITY;

CONTACT LENSES, EXTENDED-WEAR; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 31944432559     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000163449.92288.71     Document Type: Article

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