Applications of femtosecond lasers in ophthalmic surgery

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-124

  Ozulken, Kemal ^a   Cabot, Florence ^b   Yoo, Sonia H ^b  

^a Kudret Eye Hospital   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

femtosecond laser assisted corneal surgeries; femtosecond laser assisted INTACS implantation; femtosecond laser assisted keratoplasty; femtosecond lenticule extraction; FLEx

Indexed keywords

CATARACT SURGERIES; DIFFERENT SHAPES; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FEMTOSECONDS; FLEX; FS LASER; LASER IN SITU KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER-ASSISTED; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OPHTHALMIC SURGERY; REFRACTIVE CORRECTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

LASER SURGERY; TISSUE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; ASTIGMATISM; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONVALESCENCE; CORNEAL BIOPSY; CROSS LINKING; ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYE SURGERY; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRASTROMAL CORNEAL RING SEGMENT; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; KERATOTOMY; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; MICROKERATOME; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESBYOPIA; REFRACTION ERROR; REVIEW; TREPHINE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84871968167     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erd.12.59     Document Type: Review

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