Wavefront-guided LASIK for myopia: Effect on visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and higher order aberrations

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 524-533

  Keir, Nancy J ^a   Simpson, Trefford ^a   Jones, Lyndon W ^a   Fonn, Desmond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE; TROPICAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOPIC VISION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649379619     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20090512-06     Document Type: Article

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