Refractive and keratometric outcomes of intacs continue to improve until 6 months

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1068-

  Colin, Joseph ^a   Touboul, David ^a   Bedi, Raman ^b  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL ACTIVATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CROSS LINKING; EYE REFRACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; LETTER; LIPID STORAGE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLLAGEN; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 80051785616     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181eeb45f     Document Type: Letter

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