A new surgical technique for anterior segment ectasia: Tectonic lamellar sclerokeratoplasty

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 434-436

  Esquenazi, Salomon ^a   Shihadeh, Wisam A ^a,b   Abderkader, Almamoun ^a   Kaufman, Herbert E ^a  

^a LSU EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; TIMOLOL MALEATE;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEOSCLERAL ECTASIA; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARACENTESIS; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33749484024     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20060901-15     Document Type: Article

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