Management of corneal ectasia after LASIK with combined, same-day, topography-guided partial transepithelial PRK and collagen cross-linking: The Athens protocol

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 323-331

  Kanellopoulos, Anastasios John ^a,b,c   Binder, Perry S ^d  

^a Laservisiongr Institute   (Greece)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; COLLAGEN; OFLOXACIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; RIBOFLAVIN SODIUM PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL COUNT; CENTRAL ULTRASONIC PACHYMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLAGEN CROSS LINKAGE; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ECTASIA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEAL HAZE; CORRECTED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; UNCORRECTED DISTANCE VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 79955844245     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20101105-01     Document Type: Article

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