Corneal recovery after LASIK for high myopia: A 2-year prospective confocal microscopic study

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1397-1402

  Moilanen, J A O ^a,b   Holopainen, J M ^a   Vesaluoma, M H ^a   Tervo, T M T ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Aero Medical Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CALCULATION; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONVALESCENCE; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION INDEX; STROMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEAL STROMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 53649095205     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.126821     Document Type: Article

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