Repeat penetrating keratoplasty: Indications, graft survival, and visual outcome

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 324-327

  Al Mezaine, H ^a,b   Wagoner, Michael D ^a  

^a KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DISEASES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644650785     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2005.079624     Document Type: Review

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