Treatment of lisch corneal dystrophy with photorefractive keratectomy and mitomycin C

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 481-485

  Wessel, Matthew M ^a   Sarkar, Jayati S ^a   Jakobiec, Frederick A ^b   Dang, Natasha ^b   Bhat, Pooja ^c   Michaud, Norman ^b   Starr, Christopher E ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; Lisch corneal dystrophy; mitomycin C; photorefractive keratectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; ASCORBIC ACID; FLUOROMETHOLONE; GATIFLOXACIN; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORNEA DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LISCH CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; MALE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; HUMANS; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79952989006     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181ec8e26     Document Type: Article

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