Graft decentration in penetrating keratoplasty: Nonmechanical trephination with the excimer laser (193 nm) versus the motor trephine

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 106-113

  Langenbucher, Achim ^a,b   Seitz, Berthold ^a   Kus, Murat M ^a   Vilchis, Ernesto ^a   Naumann, Gottfried O H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUPIL; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 0031890854     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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