Peripheral sterile corneal ring infiltrate after riboflavin-UVA collagen cross-linking in keratoconus

Cornea

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 702-705

  Ghanem, Ramon C ^a,b   Netto, Marcelo V ^b   Ghanem, Vinícius C ^a,b   Santhiago, Marcony R ^b,c   Wilson, Steven E ^c  

^a Sadalla Amin Ghanem Eye Hospital   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

collagen cross linking; corneal infiltrate; keratoconus; sterile infiltrate

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXPANTHENOL; DEXTRAN; GATIFLOXACIN; KETOROLAC; LOTEPREDNOL; OLOPATADINE; PREDNISOLONE; RIBOFLAVIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEAL CROSS LINKING; EPITHELIZATION; EYE PAIN; EYE REDNESS; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; KERATOCONUS; MALE; OCULAR PRURITUS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861093278     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318226da53     Document Type: Article

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