Refractive surgery: The future of perfect vision?

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 709-719

  Fong Sze Un, Calvin S ^a,b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cataract extraction; Intraocular lens implantation; LASEK; Laser surgery; LASIK; Myopia; Presbyopia; Refractive errors

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL LOSS; CORNEA INJURY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; LENS; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRESBYOPIA; RADIAL KERATOTOMY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REMISSION; RETINA DETACHMENT; REVIEW; VISION; EYE SURGERY; REFRACTION ERROR;

HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 34748905918     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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