Laboratory evaluation of selective in situ refractive cornea collagen shrinkage with continuous wave infrared laser combined with transepithelial collagen cross-linking: A novel refractive procedure

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 645-652

  Kanellopoulos, Anastasios John ^a,b  

^a LaserVision gr Institute   (Greece)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea collagen cross linking; Cornea collagen shrinkage; Infrared laser; Refractive cornea change

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; COLLAGEN; RIBOFLAVIN;

ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HEAT TREATMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED RADIATION; KERATOMETRY; LABORATORY TEST; LASER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGICAL APPROACH; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

EID: 84863473216     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S31250     Document Type: Article

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