Hyperopic LASEK treatments with mitomycin C using the SCHWIND AMARIS

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 380-383

  McAlinden, Colm ^a   Skiadaresi, Eirini ^b   Moore, Jonathan E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; MITOMYCIN C; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EYE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LASER; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; OPTICS; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHWIND AMARIS LASER; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCORRECTED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KERATECTOMY, SUBEPITHELIAL, LASER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955807412     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20101104-01     Document Type: Article

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