LASIK flap buttonhole treated immediately by PRK with mitomycin C

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-228

  Kymionis, George D ^a   Portaliou, Dimitra M ^a   Karavitaki, Alexandra E ^a   Krasia, Maria S ^a   Kontadakis, Georgios A ^a   Stratos, Aimilianos A ^a   Yoo, Sonia H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; CRYSTAL VIOLET; MITOMYCIN C;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CAPILLARY PROLIFERATION; CASE REPORT; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER IN SITU KERATOMILEUSIS FLAP BUTTONHOLE; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SLIT LAMP; TOPOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949411791     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20091209-03     Document Type: Article

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