The success of penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 673-688

  Kirkness, Colin M ^a   Ficker, Linda A ^a   Steele, A D M ^a   Rice, Noel S C ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; REFRACTIVE KERATOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTIGMATISM; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0025690240     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1990.95     Document Type: Article

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