Significant visual increase following infectious keratitis after collagen cross-linking

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 587-588

  Hafezi, Farhad ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; RIBOFLAVIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; CASE REPORT; COLLAGEN CROSS LINKAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS KERATITIS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE KERATOCONUS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; SCAR; SLIT LAMP; SNELLEN CHART; VISUAL ACUITY; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA ULCER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL ULCER; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OFLOXACIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RIBOFLAVIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865583366     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20120628-01     Document Type: Article

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