Irregularity of the posterior corneal surface after curved interface femtosecond laser-assisted versus microkeratome-assisted descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-124

  Vetter, Jan M ^a   Butsch, Christina ^a   Faust, Melissa ^a   Schmidtmann, Irene ^a   Hoffmann, Esther M ^a   Sekundo, Walter ^b   Pfeiffer, Norbert ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

endothelial keratoplasty; femtosecond laser; microkeratome; surface irregularity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOPATHY; MICROKERATOME; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84872934884     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31826ae2d8     Document Type: Article

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