Accuracy and reproducibility of Artemis central flap thickness and visual outcomes of LASIK with the Carl Zeiss Meditec VisuMax femtosecond laser and MEL 80 excimer laser platforms

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-119

  Reinstein, Dan Z ^a,b,c,d   Archer, Timothy J ^a   Gobbe, Marine ^a   Johnson, Neil ^e  

^a LONDON VISION CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D OPHTALMOLOGIE DES QUINZE VINGTS   (France)

^e Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ABERROMETRY; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949398250     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20100121-06     Document Type: Article

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