Treatment of keratoconus by topography-guided customized photorefractive keratectomy: Two-year follow-up study

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-149

  Cennamo, Gilda ^a   Intravaja, Alfonso ^b   Boccuzzi, Domenico ^b   Marotta, Giuseppe ^b   Cennamo, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; RIBOFLAVIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOKERATOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84880395802     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597x-20080201-04     Document Type: Article

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