Keratocyte density in the retroablation area after LASEK for the correction of myopia

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 426-430

  Herrmann, Wolfgang Artur ^a   Muecke, Manuela ^b   Koller, Michael ^c   Gabel, Veit Peter ^a   Lohmann, Chris Patrick ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Military Hospital Ulm   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Corneal wound healing; Keratocyte density; LASEK; Refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MITOSIS; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROMA;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL STROMA; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, SUBEPITHELIAL, LASER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33947141539     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0344-0     Document Type: Article

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