American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 145, Issue 1 , Pages 29-36.e1 , January 2008

Ten-year Follow-up of Photorefractive Keratectomy for Myopia of Less Than −6 Diopters

  • Jorge L. Alió

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationInquiries to Jorge L. Alió, Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Avda. De Denia s/n, 03016, Alicante, Spain
    • ,
  • Orkun Muftuoglu

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain
    • Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Dolores Ortiz

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain
    • ,
  • Alberto Artola

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain
    • ,
  • Juan J. Pérez-Santonja

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain
    • ,
  • Gracia Castro de Luna

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Almeria, Almeria, Spain.
    • ,
  • Sabat K. Abu-Mustafa

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain
    • ,
  • Maria Jose Garcia

      Affiliations

    • Vissum-Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante and Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University Medical School, Alicante, Spain

,Accepted 8 September 2007.

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 See accompanying Editorial on page 1.

PII: S0002-9394(07)00797-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.09.007

American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 145, Issue 1 , Pages 29-36.e1 , January 2008

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