Long-term anterior and posterior topographic analysis of the cornea after deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 408-415

  Lombardo, Marco ^a,b,f   Lombardo, Giuseppe ^a,b   Friend, Daniel J ^c   Serrao, Sebastiano ^d   Terry, Mark A ^c,e  

^a Vision Engineering Italy Srl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c Lions Vision Research Laboratory   (United States)

^d Serraolaser   (Italy)

^e DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corneal topography; Deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty; DLEK; EK; Endothelial keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DEEP LAMELLAR ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 67650571785     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31818d33c7     Document Type: Article

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