AlphaCor™ keratoprosthesis: Postoperative development of six patients

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 535-539

  Holak, S A ^a,d   Holak, H M ^b   Bleckmann, H ^c  

^a Schlosspark Klinik   (Germany)

^b Augenpraxisklinik Rudolf Virchow Ärztehaus   (Germany)

^c Augenzentrum des DRK Klinikums Westend   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

AlphaCor keratoprosthesis; Penetrating keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA STROMA; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOPROSTHESIS; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CORNEA; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

POLYMACON;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYHYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62149115259     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0964-7     Document Type: Article

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