In vivo femtosecond laser subsurface scleral treatment in rabbit eyes

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 647-651

  Chai, Dongyul ^a   Chaudhary, Gautam ^a   Mikula, Eric ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Kurtz, Ron ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMTOSECOND LASER; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA;

ANIMALS; DRAINAGE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; RABBITS; SCLERA; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 77956708995     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20954     Document Type: Article

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