Deep Lamellar Keratoplasty by Intracorneal Dissection. A Prospective Clinical and Confocal Microscopic Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1289-1300

  Marchini, Giorgio ^a   Mastropasqua, Leonardo ^b   Pedrotti, Emilio ^a   Nubile, Mario ^b   Ciancaglini, Marco ^b   Sbabo, Arianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA PERFORATION; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; COURSE EVALUATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY; LAMELLA KERATOPLASTY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE REMOVAL; TOPOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33746306461     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.01.071     Document Type: Article

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