Long-term results of penetrating keratoplasty using a single or double running suture technique

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 415-419

  Spadea, Leopoldo ^a,b   Cifariello, Francesco ^b   Bianco, Guido ^b   Balestrazzi, Emilio ^b  

^a University of L'Aquila ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE REMOVAL; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION;

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036934690     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0444-4     Document Type: Article

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