Refractive surgery and ectasia: What are we doing differently this year?

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-308

  Chuck, Roy S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONVALESCENCE; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ECTASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EYE CARE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MYOPIA; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; CORNEA; INCIDENCE; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 49849089760     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICU.0b013e328302cc9c     Document Type: Editorial

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