Laser eye surgery for refractive errors

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9520, 2006, Pages 1432-1447

  Sakimoto, Tohru ^a   Rosenblatt, Mark I ^a   Azar, Dimitri T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ASTIGMATISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; COUNSELING; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOMILEUSIS; LACRIMATION; LASER SURGERY; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPILLOMETRY; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTION INDEX; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33646128024     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68275-5     Document Type: Review

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