Conservative treatment of early and moderate pellucid marginal degeneration: A new refractive approach with intracorneal rings

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 660-666

  Mularoni, Alessandro ^a   Torreggiani, Alberto ^a   Di Biase, Arturo ^a   Laffi, Gian Luca ^a   Tassinari, Giorgio ^a  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA SURGERY; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRACORNEAL RING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; PELLUCID MARGINAL DEGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ACUITY; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA STROMA; EYE SURGERY; KERATOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 16244370999     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.10.050     Document Type: Article

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