Keratectasia after LASIK but not after PRK in one patient

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 817-820

  Javadi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mohammadpour, Mehrdad ^a   Rabei, Hossein Mohammad ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CASE REPORT; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA THICKNESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATECTASIA; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 33750117280     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20061001-13     Document Type: Article

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