Management of post laser in situ Keratomileusis ectasia with simultaneous Topography Guided Photorefractive Keratectomy and Collagen Cross-Linking

Open Ophthalmology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 11-13

  Kymionis, George D ^a   Portaliou, Dimitra M ^a   Diakonis, Vasilios F ^a   Karavitaki, Alexandra E ^a   Panagopoulou, Sophia I ^a   Jankov, Mirko R ^b   Coskunseven, Efekan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Centre for Eye Microsurgery   (Serbia)

^c Dunya Eye Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cxl; Guided prk; Lasik ectasia; Post; Topography

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DENACLOF; DEXAMETHASONE PLUS TOBRAMYCIN; DICLOFENAC; RIBOFLAVIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CASE REPORT; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL COLLAGEN CROSS LINKING; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; KERATECTASIA; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NIGHT VISION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79960077171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18743641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874364101105010011     Document Type: Article

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