Pentacam Assessment of Posterior Lamellar Grafts to Explain Hyperopization after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1651-1655

  Scorcia, Vincenzo ^a,b   Matteoni, Stefania ^a   Scorcia, Giovanni Battista ^b   Scorcia, Giovanni ^b   Busin, Massimo ^a,b  

^a Casa di Cura Villa Serena   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CATARACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET STRIPPING AUTOMATED ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOPATHY; KERATOPLASTY; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 69249217750     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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