Corneal ectasia after LASIK in a patient with normal scheimpflug evaluation but a high ectasia risk score

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 792-795

  Goncalves, Fauze Abdulmassih ^a   Goncalves, José Marcos Santos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Cornea Refractive Surgery and Cataract Surgery Hospital de Cirurgia Ocular   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOFLAVIN; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL COLLAGEN CROSS LINKING; CROSS LINKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECTASIA RISK SCORE SYSTEM; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETER; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SCHEIMPFLUG IMAGING; SCORING SYSTEM; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CORNEAL DISEASES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888585793     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20130813-01     Document Type: Article

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