Topography-Guided Surface Ablation for Forme Fruste Keratoconus

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2198-2202

  Koller, Tobias ^a   Iseli, Hans Peter ^a   Donitzky, Christof ^d   Ing, Dipl ^b   Papadopoulos, Nikolaos ^c   Seiler, Theo ^a  

^a Inst F Refraktive Ophthalmo Chir   (Switzerland)

^b Wavelight Laser Technologie AG   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCIMER LASER; EYE REFRACTION; FORME FROSTE KERATOCONUS; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PILOT STUDY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; KERATECTOMY, SUBEPITHELIAL, LASER-ASSISTED; KERATOCONUS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33751516685     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.06.032     Document Type: Article

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