Association of surgeon experience with outcomes of femtosecond LASIK

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 489-494

  Shtein, Roni M ^a   Michelotti, Monica M ^b   Kaplan, Ariane ^a   Mian, Shahzad I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORNEAL STROMA; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84872745200     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20120920-02     Document Type: Article

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