Novel laser-activated solder for sealing corneal wounds

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1038-1042

  Noguera, Guillermo ^a   Lee, Woo Seok ^a   Castro Combs, Juan ^a   Chuck, Roy S ^a   Soltz, Barbara ^b   Soltz, Robert ^b   Behrens, Ashley ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Conversion Energy Enterprises ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; COLLAGEN; NYLON; COLLAGEN TYPE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA SURGERY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMETRY; LASER; MANOMETER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; DRUG EFFECT; EYE INJURY; INJURY; RABBIT; RUPTURE; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CORNEA; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS; RUPTURE; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34047257673     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0488     Document Type: Article

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