Study of corneal topographic patterns with single continuous suturing techniques in penetrating keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-9

  Sharma, Vidushi ^a   Sharma, Namrata ^a   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^a   Titiyal, Jeewan S ^a   Sinha, Rajesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Astigmatism; Penetrating keratoplasty; Single continuous suture; Suture adjustment; Topography patterns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUTURING METHOD; VIDEORECORDING;

ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037226128     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200301000-00002     Document Type: Article

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