Clinical outcome and recurrence of epithelial basement membrane dystrophy after phototherapeutic keratectomy

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 515-522

  Germundsson, Johan ^a   Fagerholm, Per ^a   Lagali, Neil ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIAL BASEMENT MEMBRANE DYSTROPHY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; RECURRENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79952282261     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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