Orthokeratologic Procedures [ortokeratologické metody]
- Terms
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orthokeratologické metody
ortokeratologické procedury
An alternative to REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES. A therapeutic procedure for correcting REFRACTIVE ERRORS. It involves wearing CONTACT LENSES designed to force corrective changes to the curvature of the CORNEA that remain after the lenses are removed. The effect is temporary but is maintained by wearing the therapeutic lenses daily, usually during sleep.
- DUI
- D054158 MeSH Browser
- CUI
- M0502073
- Previous indexing
- Refractive Errors/therapy or specifics (1968-2007)
- History note
- 2008
- Public note
- 2008
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- AE
- adverse effects
- CL
- classification
- EC
- economics
- ES
- ethics
- HI
- history 1
- IS
- instrumentation
- MT
- methods 1
- MO
- mortality
- NU
- nursing
- PX
- psychology
- ST
- standards
- SN
- statistics & numerical data
- TD
- trends
- VE
- veterinary