Optical performance of the cornea six years following photorefractive keratectomy for myopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 846-857

  Serrao, Sebastiano ^a,b   Lombardo, Giuseppe ^b,c   Ducoli, Pietro ^d   Lombardo, Marco ^d  

^a Serraolaser   (Italy)

^b Vision Engineering   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; LOW MYOPIA; MALE; MYOPIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; QUALITY CONTROL; VISION; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; EXCIMER LASER; FOLLOW UP; KERATOMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79953284527     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5905     Document Type: Article

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