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ArticleMedical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Visual, Topographic and Aberrometric Outcomes After Phototherapeutic Keratectomy (PTK) for Salzmann Nodular Degeneration.

Simon Helm, Johanna Wiedemann, Niklas Reinking, Benjamin Rosswinkel, Björn Bachmann, Claus Cursiefen, Simona Schlereth

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Article in Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Simon HelmDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0009-0009-9675-0167
Johanna WiedemannDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0009-0000-0496-4921
Niklas ReinkingReinking Augenklinik am Campus, 33100 Paderborn, Germany.
Benjamin RosswinkelInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany.
Björn BachmannDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
Claus CursiefenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1958-411X
Simona SchlerethDepartment of Ophthalmology, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany.

Funding

Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne CAP40 to SSDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Project number 501530074 (www.crc1607.de: BB, CC, SS)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Corneal Dystrophies, HereditaryCorneal TopographyPhotorefractive KeratectomyAberrometryAdultAgedCorneaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedTreatment OutcomeVisual Acuityastigmatismdensitometryhigher order aberrationphototherapeutic keratectomySalzmann nodular degeneration

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PMID40981195
PMCPMC12452642

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