Sight and comfort: Complex procedures in end-stage Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Eye

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-91

  Geerling, G ^a,b   Liu, C S C ^c   Dart, J K G ^a   Sieg, P ^b   Herold, J ^c   Collin, J R O ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c SUSSEX EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Dry eye; Osteo odonto keratoprosthesis; Rehabilitation; Stevens Johnson syndrome; Submandibular gland transplantation

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY EYE; ENUCLEATION; EYE DISEASE; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; FREE SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; KERATOPROSTHESIS; MEDICAL EXPERT; PERFORATING EYE INJURY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISION;

EID: 0037261474     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700264     Document Type: Article

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