Three-year changes in epithelial and stromal thickness after prk or lasik for high myopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2061-2066

  Ivarsen, Anders ^a   Fledelius, Walther ^a   Hjortdal, Jesper Ø ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 65549088043     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2853     Document Type: Article

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