Comparison of Epi-LASIK and Off-Flap Epi-LASIK for the Treatment of Low and Moderate Myopia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2174-2180

  Kalyvianaki, Maria I ^a,b   Kymionis, George D ^a,b   Kounis, George A ^a   Panagopoulou, Sophia I ^a   Grentzelos, Michael A ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^a,b  

^a Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO)   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPITHELIUM LASIK; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OFF FLAP EPITHELIUM LASIK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORNEAL STROMA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56549091753     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.08.025     Document Type: Article

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