Topography-guided customized laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy for the treatment of postkeratoplasty astigmatism

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 949-957

  Rajan, Madhavan S ^a   O'Brart, David P S ^a   Patel, Parul ^a   Falcon, Mike G ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIUM; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; SPECTACLES; STROMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SUTURE; TIME; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, SUBEPITHELIAL, LASER-ASSISTED; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33746985040     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.02.036     Document Type: Article

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