Riboflavin/ultraviolet a crosslinking of the paracentral cornea

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-168

  Koller, Tobias ^a   Schumacher, Silvia ^a   Fankhauser, Franz ^a   Seiler, Theo ^a  

^a IROC AG Institut für Refraktive und Okuloplastische Chirurgie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

crosslinking; keratoconus; pellucid marginal degeneration; riboflavin

Indexed keywords

RIBOFLAVIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORNEA; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEAL CROSSLINKING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KERATOCONUS; LIGHT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLYMERIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

COLLAGEN; CORNEA; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; PERMEABILITY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; POLYMERIZATION; RIBOFLAVIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84872937354     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318269059b     Document Type: Article

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