Efficacy and safety of blue-light scleral cross-linking

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Iseli, Hans Peter ^a,f   Spoerl, Eberhard ^b   Wiedemann, Peter ^c   Krueger, Ronald R ^d   Seiler, Theo ^a,e  

^a Institute of Refractive and Ophthalmic Surgery IROC   (Switzerland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Institute for Refractive and Ophthalmic Surgery IROC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOMECHANICS; BLUE LIGHT; CELL DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA CELL; RETINA INJURY; RIGIDITY; SCLERA; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 51149105063     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597x-20080901-21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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