Clinical investigation of off-flap Epi-LASIK for moderate to high myopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2390-2394

  Wang, Qin Mei ^a   Fu, Ai Cun ^a   Yu, Ye ^a   Xu, Chen Chen ^a   Wang, Xiao Xing ^a   Chen, Shi Hao ^a   Yu, A Yong ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEA SURGERY; EPITHELIZATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXCIMER LASER; METHODOLOGY; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MYOPIA; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 47249127165     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0827     Document Type: Article

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