Ten-Year Follow-up of Photorefractive Keratectomy for Myopia of More Than -6 Diopters

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Alió, Jorge L ^a   Muftuoglu, Orkun ^a,b   Ortiz, Dolores ^a   Artola, Alberto ^a   Pérez Santonja, Juan Jose ^a   de Luna, Gracia Castro ^c   Abu Mustafa, Sabat K ^a   Garcia, Maria Jose ^a  

^a Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante ^*  (Spain)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Instituto Oftalmológico de Almeria   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHILD; EVALUATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KERATOMETRY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REOPERATION; SPECTACLES; TOPOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 37249049915     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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