Reverse-geometry gas-permeable lens design for pellucid marginal degeneration

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 127-129

  Liu, Jill ^a   Leach, Norman E ^a   Bergmanson, Jan P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Orbscan II; Pellucid marginal degeneration; Posterior float; Reverse geometry gas permeable lens

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA THICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY; KERATOMETRY; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 21244465012     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000142380.78861.89     Document Type: Article

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