Retrospective study of contact lens fitting in pellucid marginal degeneration

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 207-210

  Mahadevan, Rajeswari ^a   Amudhaoli, A ^a   Valarmathi, A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Contact lens fitting, contact lens fitting in irregular corneas; Pellucid marginal corneal degeneration; Pellucid marginal degeneration; Spherical rigid gas permeable lenses; Spherical rigid gas permeable lenses fitting in pellucid marginal degeneration

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAS PERMEABILITY; HARD CONTACT LENS; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PELLUCID MARGINAL CORNEAL DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SOFT CONTACT LENS; SPECTACLES; VISION; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; EYE REFRACTION; PROSTHESIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS FITTING; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 58149118130     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e318160f329     Document Type: Article

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