Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , January 2009

Corneal architecture of femtosecond laser and microkeratome flaps imaged by anterior segment optical coherence tomography

  • Burkhard von Jagow, MD
    • ,
  • Thomas Kohnen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Thomas Kohnen, MD, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Department of Ophthalmology, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Received 8 May 2008 ,Revised 20 August 2008 ,Accepted 6 September 2008.

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 Neither author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Presented in part at the 21. Kongress der Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII), Potsdam, Germany, March 2007.

PII: S0886-3350(08)00961-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.09.013

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , January 2009

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