Buttonholes during LASIK: Etiology and outcome

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 472-476

  Lichter, Henia ^a,c   Stulting, R Doyle ^b   Waring III, George O ^a   Russell, Gregg E ^a   Carr, Jonathan ^a  

^a InView   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLAP BUTTONHOLE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTACLES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34248550046     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20070501-09     Document Type: Article

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