Biomechanics and wound healing in the cornea

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-720

  Dupps Jr , William J ^a   Wilson, Steven E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

biomechanics; cornea; ectasia; haze; hyperopic shift; LASIK; PRK; PTK; refractive surgery; regression; wound healing

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; CORTICOSTEROID; MITOMYCIN C; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMNION; ANISOTROPY; ASTIGMATISM; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DIFFUSE LAMELLAR KERATITIS; ENZYME RELEASE; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERMETROPIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYOFIBROBLAST; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REVIEW; SHEAR STRENGTH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VISCOELASTICITY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; CORNEA; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, LASER; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33747884984     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.03.015     Document Type: Review

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