Screening for ectasia risk: What are we screening for and how should we screen for it?

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 230-232

  Ambrósio Jr , Renato ^a,b   Randleman, J Bradley ^c  

^a Instituto de Olhos Renato Ambrosio   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ECTASIA; EXCIMER LASER; FORME FRUSTE KERATOCONUS; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84875986726     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20130318-01     Document Type: Review

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