Quantitative assessment of corneal wound healing following intralasik using in vivo confocal microscopy

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 106, Issue , 2008, Pages 84-90

  McCulley, James P ^a   Petroll, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA FLAP; CORNEA INJURY; HUMAN; INTRALASE FS15 LASER; INTRALASE FS30 LASER; INTRALASE FS60 LASER; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; TISSUE FLAP; WOUND HEALING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; EXCIMER LASER; HYPERMETROPIA; METHODOLOGY; MYOPIA; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CORNEAL STROMA; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOPIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 63049096633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15456110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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