In vivo femtosecond laser-assisted posterior lamellar keratoplasty in rabbits

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1205-1209

  Mian, Shahzad I ^a,d   Soong, H Kaz ^a   Patel, Sanjay V ^a,b   Ignacio, Teresa ^c   Juhasz, Tibor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Posterior lamellar keratoplasty; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FOLLOW UP; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; LASER; LASER SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; POSTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33845724709     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000231491.95377.0b     Document Type: Article

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