Visual outcomes after wavefront-guided photorefractive keratectomy and wavefront-guided laser in situ keratomileusis: Prospective comparison

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1336-1343

  Moshirfar, Majid ^a   Schliesser, Joshua A ^a   Chang, Joann C ^a   Oberg, Thomas J ^a   Mifflin, Mark D ^a   Townley, Richard ^b   Livingston, Myrna K ^a   Kurz, Christopher J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DAVID GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRIS; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; ABERROMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; EXCIMER LASER; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURGICAL FLAPS; THERAPEUTIC USE; YOUNG ADULT;

ABERROMETRY; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955701974     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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