Anterior segment optical coherence tomography evaluation of corneal epithelium healing time after 2 different surface ablation methods

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-72

  Eliacik, Mustafa ^a   Bayramlar, Huseyin ^b   Erdur, Sevil K ^a   Karabela, Yunus ^a   Demirci, Goktuğ ^a   Gulkilik, İBrahim G ^a   Ozsutcu, Mustafa ^a  

^a ISTANBUL MEDIPOL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Education and Agencies Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA TOPOGRAPHER; EMMETROPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; LACRIMATION; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PACHYMETRY; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SCHIRMER TEST; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; KERATOMILEUSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SURGERY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922009307     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15537/smj.2015.1.9983     Document Type: Article

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