Effects of Ablation Diameter on Long-term Refractive Stability and Corneal Transparency after Photorefractive Keratectomy

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1798-1806

  Rajan, Madhavan S ^a   O'Brart, David ^a   Jaycock, Philip ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA OPACITY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33748979720     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.06.030     Document Type: Article

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