Outcomes of penetrating keratoplasty in keratoconus

Cornea

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 941-946

  Javadi, Mohammad Ali ^a,d   Motlagh, Behzad Fallahi ^b   Jafarinasab, Mohammad Reza ^a   Rabbanikhah, Zahra ^a   Anissian, Arash ^a   Souri, Hamid ^c   Yazdani, Shahin ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Keratoconus; Penetrating keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE REFRACTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; IRAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOPIA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 28044466002     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000159730.45177.cd     Document Type: Article

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