Half-top-hat - A new wound configuration for penetrating keratoplasty

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-146

  Kaiserman, I ^a,b   Bahar, I ^a   Rootman, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CORNEA DISEASE; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CORNEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 38349142794     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.125435     Document Type: Article

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