Six-Month clinical outcomes of customized treatments minimized for depth and time in laser corneal refractive surgery

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 876-888

  Arba Mosquera, Samuel ^a,b   Arbelaez, Maria Clara ^c   Merayo Llovés, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b SCHWIND eye tech solutions   (Germany)

^c Muscat Eye Laser Center   (Oman)

Author keywords

ablation depth; ablation time; ablation volume; corneal laser; customized ablation, minimized ablation; optimized ablation; refractive surgery; tissue saving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEA SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ABERROMETRY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960697340     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181d3d2ce     Document Type: Article

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