Short-term Results of Penetrating Keratoplasty Performed with the Femtec Femtosecond Laser

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hoffart, Louis ^a,b   Proust, Helene ^a   Matonti, Frederic ^a,b   Ridings, Bernard ^a,b   Conrath, John ^a,b  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BEST SPECTACLE CORRECTED VISUAL ACUITY; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA SURGERY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPATHY; LASER; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PACHYMETRY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCORRECTED VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 45449086225     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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