Management of severe ocular burns with symblepharon

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-106

  Shi, Weiyun ^a   Wang, Ting ^a,b   Gao, Hua ^a   Xie, Lixin ^a  

^a SHANDONG EYE INSTITUTE   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Eye burn; Pseudopterygium; Symblepharon

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE PLUS TOBRAMYCIN; EYE DROPS; HYDROCORTISONE; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EYE BURN; EYELID DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; OCULAR BURN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPTERYGIUM; PTERYGIUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMBLEPHARON; TARSORRHAPY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACIDS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALKALIES; AMNION; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE BURNS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MIDDLE AGED; PTERYGIUM; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56949083638     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0934-0     Document Type: Article

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