Femtosecond lenticule extraction (FLEx): Clinical results, interface evaluation, and intraocular pressure variation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1414-1421

  Ang, Marcus ^a   Chaurasia, Shyam S ^b   Angunawela, Romesh I ^a   Poh, Rebekah ^b   Riau, Andri ^b   Tan, Donald ^a,b,c   Mehta, Jodhbir S ^a,b,c,d  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c National University Health System   (Singapore)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; DEVICE SAFETY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LENTICULE EXTRACTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERMETROPIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SAFETY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TONOMETER; VISUAL ACUITY; ANIMAL; CADAVER; CORNEA STROMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ASTIGMATISM; CADAVER; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RABBITS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860578694     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8808     Document Type: Article

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