Preliminary results of femtosecond laser-assisted descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1351-1356

  Cheng, Yanny Y Y ^a   Hendrikse, Fred ^a   Pels, Elisabeth ^b   Wijdh, Robert Jan ^c   Van Cleynenbreugel, Hugo ^d   Eggink, Cathariena A ^f   Van Rij, Gabriel ^e   Rijneveld, Wilhelmina J ^g   Nuijts, Rudy M M A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g Westfries Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIC KERATOPATHY; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIAL INGROWTH; EYE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LASER ASSISTED DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; GLAUCOMA; GRAFT DISLOCATION; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPATHY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOPHAKIC BULLOUS KERATOPATHY; PUPILLARY BLOCK GLAUCOMA; SPECTACLES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 54049084220     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.10.1351     Document Type: Article

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