Combined wedge resection and beveled penetrating relaxing incisions for the treatment of pellucid marginal corneal degeneration

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 595-600

  Busin, Massimo ^a,b   Kerdraon, Yves ^a,c   Scorcia, Vincenzo ^a,b   Zambianchi, Luca ^a   Matteoni, Stefania ^a  

^a Villa Serena Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pellucid marginal corneal degeneration; Relaxing incisions; Wedge resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA RELAXING INCISION; CORNEA SURGERY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCISION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KERATOMETRY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELLUCID MARGINAL CORNEAL DEGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTACLES; SUTURE REMOVAL; VISUAL ACUITY; WEDGE EXCISION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; AGED; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 48249108371     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318166c40c     Document Type: Article

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