Femtosecond laser cataract incision morphology and corneal higher-order aberration analysis

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 590-595

  Alió, Jorge L ^a,b   Abdou, Ahmed A ^c   Soria, Felipe ^a   Javaloy, Jaime ^a,b   Fernández Buenaga, Roberto ^a   Nagy, Zoltán Z ^d   Filkorn, Tamás ^d  

^a VISSUM Corporacion Oftalmologica   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HIGHER ORDER ABERRATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCISION; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPHTHALMIC FEMTOSECOND LASER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEA; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84884898182     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20130819-01     Document Type: Article

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