Confocal Comparison of Corneal Reinnervation after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) and Femtosecond Laser In Situ Keratomileusis (FS-LASIK)

Meiyan Li; Lingling Niu; Bing Qin; Zimei Zhou; Katherine Ni; Qihua Le; Jun Xiang; Anji Wei; Weiping Ma; Xingtao Zhou

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081435

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Confocal Comparison of Corneal Reinnervation after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) and Femtosecond Laser In Situ Keratomileusis (FS-LASIK)

Meiyan Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Meiyan Li, Lingling Niu

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Lingling Niu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Meiyan Li, Lingling Niu

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Bing Qin,

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zimei Zhou,

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Katherine Ni,

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Qihua Le,

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Jun Xiang,

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Anji Wei,

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Weiping Ma,

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Xingtao Zhou

* E-mail: doctzhouxingtao@163.com

Affiliation Key Lab of Myopia, Ministry of Health, Department of Ophthalmology, EYE & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Confocal Comparison of Corneal Reinnervation after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) and Femtosecond Laser In Situ Keratomileusis (FS-LASIK)

Meiyan Li,
Lingling Niu,
Bing Qin,
Zimei Zhou,
Katherine Ni,
Qihua Le,
Jun Xiang,
Anji Wei,
Weiping Ma,
Xingtao Zhou

Published: December 9, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081435

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