Recurrent Corneal Erosions Treated with Anterior Stromal Puncture by Neodymium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet Laser

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1296-1300

  Tsai, Tzu Yun ^a   Tsai, Tzu Hsun ^a   Hu, Fung Rong ^a   Hou, Yu Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EROSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PUNCTURES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649311610     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.01.037     Document Type: Article

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