Femtosecond laser keratome creation of partial thickness donor corneal buttons for lamellar keratoplasty

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-65

  Sarayba, Melvin A ^a,d   Maguen, Ezra ^b   Salz, James ^b   Rabinowitz, Yaron ^b   Ignacio, Teresa S ^c  

^a IntraLase Corporation   (United States)

^b Laser Eye Associates in Cedar Sinai   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DIGITAL CALIPER; FEMTOSECOND LASER KERATOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; KERATOPLASTY; LASER; MEASUREMENT; ORGAN DONOR; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33846329793     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20070101-10     Document Type: Article

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