Manual suction versus femtosecond laser trephination for penetrating keratoplasty: Intraocular pressure, endothelial cell damage, incision geometry, and wound healing responses

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2571-2579

  Angunawela, Romesh I ^a,b   Riau, Andri ^a   Chaurasia, Shyam S ^a   Tan, Donald T ^a,b,c   Mehta, Jodhbir S ^a,b,c,d  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCISION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MANUAL SUCTION TREPHINATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLIT LAMP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREPHINATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; RABBITS; SUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860642599     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8403     Document Type: Article

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