Customized pachymetric guided epithelial debridement for corneal collagen cross linking

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kymionis, George D ^a,b   Diakonis, Vasilios F ^b   Coskunseven, Efekan ^c   Jankov, Mirco ^d   Yoo, Sonia H ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c World Eye Hospital   (Turkey)

^d Department of Medicine   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ECTASIA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA SURGERY; DEBRIDEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; CORNEA STROMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOTHERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLAGEN; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; DEBRIDEMENT; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 70349136304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-9-10     Document Type: Article

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