Refractive and Corneal Aberrometric Changes after Intracorneal Ring Implantation in Corneas with Pellucid Marginal Degeneration

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1656-1664

  Piñero, David P ^a,b   Alio, Jorge L ^a,c   Morbelli, Hector ^d   Uceda Montanes, Antonio ^e,f   Kady, Bassam El ^a,g   Coskunseven, Efekan ^h   Pascual, Inmaculada ^b  

^a Alicante   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^d Vissum Albacete ^*  (Spain)

^e VISSUM Corporacion Oftalmologica   (Spain)

^f Fundación Andaluza de Imagen Color y Óptica   (Spain)

^g AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^h Dunya Eye Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; INTRACORNEAL RING SEGMENTS; KERATOMETRY; MALE; PELLUCID MARGINAL DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICALLY-CREATED STRUCTURES; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69349086756     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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