Interface quality of endothelial keratoplasty buttons obtained with optimised femtosecond laser settings

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 122-127

  Rousseau, Antoine ^a   Bensalem, Abdelkader ^b   Garnier, Virginie ^c   Savoldelli, Michèle ^d   Saragoussi, Jean Jacques ^a,e   Renard, Gilles ^f   Bourges, Jean Louis ^f  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^b Abbott Medical Optics France SAS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^e Clinique de la Vision   (France)

^f Hôtel Dieu Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMILEUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DISSECTION; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 84455173598     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2011-300463     Document Type: Article

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