Outcomes of combined penetrating keratoplasty and cataract extraction compared with penetrating keratoplasty alone

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 324-329

  Green, Matthew ^a   Chow, Andrew ^b   Apel, Andrew ^c  

^a Gold Coast Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b IPSWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c The Eye Health Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cataract; Failure; Keratoplasty; Outcome; Triple

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; LENS IMPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34447619529     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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