Effect of vitreous length and trephine size disparity on post-DALK refractive status

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-423

  Javadi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Feizi, Sepehr ^a   Rastegarpour, Ali ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

big bubble technique; DALK; recipient donor disparity; refractive outcomes; Vitreous length

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITREOUS BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 79952993025     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181d4f8ff     Document Type: Article

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