Treatment of six cases of advanced ectasia after LASIK with 6-mm intacs SK

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1116-1119

  Rodríguez, Luís A ^a   Villegas, Anny E ^a   Porras, Dianela ^a   Benavides, María A ^a   Molina, Javier ^a  

^a Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ECTASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOPIA; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 74049130380     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20090814-04     Document Type: Article

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