Spontaneous resolution of corneal decompensation after big-bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty with intraoperative Descemet's membrane perforation

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-375

  Kopsachilis, Nikolaos ^a   Tsinopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Tourtas, Theofilos ^a   Kruse, Friedrich E ^a   Cursiefen, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; BIG BUBBLE TECHNIQUE; CASE REPORT; CORNEA PERFORATION; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; EYE EXAMINATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPATHY; KERATOPLASTY; LETTER; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SLIT LAMP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CORNEAL EDEMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79958708460     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02448.x     Document Type: Letter

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