Improvement of visual acuity following refractive surgery for myopia and myopic anisometropia

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 447-455

  Vuori, Elisa ^a   Tervo, Timo M T ^a   Holopainen, Martti V A ^b   Holopainen, Juha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HÄME UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34248546628     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20070501-05     Document Type: Article

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