Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty: The tenuous relationship between donor thickness and postoperative vision

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1988-1996

  Terry, Mark A ^a,b   Straiko, Michael D ^a   Goshe, Jeffrey M ^a   Li, Jennifer Y ^a   Davis Boozer, David ^b  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Lions VisionGift Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT THICKNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; THICKNESS; TISSUE GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84867097872     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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