Five-millimeter-incision deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty: One-year results

Cornea

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 530-533

  Yepes, Natasha ^a   Segev, Fanny ^a   Hyams, Michael ^a   McAllum, Penny ^a   Slomovic, Allan R ^a   Rootman, David S ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cornea transplantation; Deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty; Fuchs dystrophy; Posterior lamellar keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; DEEP LAMELLAR ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCISION; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SPECTACLES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL EDEMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34547418696     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318038d2ff     Document Type: Article

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