Corneoscleroplasty with maintenance of the angle in two cases of extensive corneoscleral disease

Eye

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 196-200

  Burk, Reinhard O W ^a   Joussen, Antonia M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cornea; Diffuse destructive disease; Grafting; Immune suppression; Sclera

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE 21 (3 SULFOBENZOATE); OFLOXACIN; POLYPROPYLENE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE PIVALATE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEA ULCER; EPITHELIUM; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS RUBEOSIS; KERATOCONUS; LENS IMPLANT; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCLERA; SUTURE; TRANSPLANTATION; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034065813     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2000.53     Document Type: Article

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