INTACS for keratoconus and ectasia after LASIK

International Ophthalmology Clinics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-39

  Rabinowitz, Yaron S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE INFECTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HUMAN; INCISION; INTRASTROMAL CORNEAL RING SEGMENT; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; LENS IMPLANT; PERFORATING EYE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84871563497     PISSN: 00208167     EISSN: 15369617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IIO.0b013e3182774453     Document Type: Article

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