Morphologic and histopathologic changes in the rabbit cornea produced by femtosecond laser-assisted multilayer intrastromal ablation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2147-2153

  Zhang, Zhen Yong ^a   Chu, Ren Yuan ^a   Zhou, Xing Tao ^a   Dai, Jin Hui ^a   Sun, Xing Huai ^a   Hoffman, Matthew R ^b   Zhang, Xing Ru ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA SURGERY; FEMTOSECOND LASER ASSISTED MULTILAYER INTRASTROMAL ABLATION; FIBROBLAST; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MYOFIBROBLAST; MYOPIA; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFRACTION ERROR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; EXCIMER LASER; EYE REFRACTION; KERATOMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIBROBLASTS; LASERS, EXCIMER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RABBITS; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 65549161944     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2400     Document Type: Article

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