Changes in keratoconic corneas after intracorneal ring segment explantation and reimplantation

Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 747-751

  Alió, Jorge L ^a,d   Artola, Alberto ^a   Ruiz Moreno, José M ^a   Hassanein, Ahmed ^a,b   Galal, Ahmed ^a,c   Awadalla, Mohamed A ^a,b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Egypt)

^d Inst Oftalmologico de Alicante ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE COURSE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACORNEAL RING; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1842536307     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2003.08.024     Document Type: Article

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