A single 210-degree arc length intrastromal corneal ring implantation for the management of pellucid marginal corneal degeneration

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-192.e1

  Kubaloglu, Anil ^a   Sari, Esin Sogutlu ^a   Cinar, Yasin ^a   Koytak, Arif ^a   Kurnaz, Ekrem ^a   Piero, David P ^b   Ozerturk, Yusuf ^a  

^a Lutfi Krdar Kartal Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b VISSUM Corporacion Oftalmologica   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRASTROMAL CORNEAL RING SEGMENT; KERATOMETRY; MALE; PELLUCID MARGINAL CORNEAL DEGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA STROMA; IMPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

ADULT; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77955501990     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2010.03.020     Document Type: Article

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