Femtosecond lenticule extraction for the correction of myopia: Preliminary 6-month results

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 248, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1019-1027

  Blum, Marcus ^a   Kunert, Kathleen ^b   Schröder, Michael ^a   Sekundo, Walter ^b  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Femtosecondlaser lenticule extraction; Myopia; Refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMTOSECOND LENTICULE EXTRACTION; HUMAN; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOPIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SLIT LAMP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955661467     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-009-1293-1     Document Type: Article

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