Corneal intrastromal gatifloxacin crystal deposits after penetrating keratoplasty

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-172

  Awwad, Shady T ^a   Haddad, Walid ^b   Wang, Ming X ^b   Parmar, Dipak ^a   Conger, Darrel ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Wang Vision Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cornea; Crystals; Gatifloxacin; Penetrating keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; EYE OINTMENT; GATIFLOXACIN; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EYE DROPS; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CRYSTAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LENS IMPLANT; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; CORNEA STROMA; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; LENS IMPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 16544369826     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000133241.56713.2F     Document Type: Article

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