Secondary ectasia due to forceps injury at childbirth: Management with combined topography-guided partial PRK and collagen cross-linking (Athens protocol) and subsequent phakic IOL implantation

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 635-636

  Kanellopoulos, Anastasios John ^a   Skouteris, Vasilios S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; BIRTH INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORNEA INJURY; CROSS LINKING; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DETERIORATION; EYE REFRACTION; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; LENS IMPLANTATION; LETTER; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY;

BIRTH INJURIES; CELL COUNT; COLLAGEN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; OBSTETRICAL FORCEPS; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENSES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053539942     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20110901-05     Document Type: Letter

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