Delayed ectasia following LASIK with no risk factors: Is a 300-μm stromal bed enough?

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 620-622

  Tuli, Sonal S ^a,b   Iyer, Sandhya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ECTASIA; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 34250637046     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20070601-14     Document Type: Article

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