Sarnicola air-visco bubble technique in deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 527-532

  Muftuoglu, Orkun ^a   Toro, Patricia ^b   Hogan, R Nick ^a   Bowman, R Wayne ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a   McCulley, James P ^a   Mootha, V Vinod ^a   Sarnicola, Vicenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

air and ophthalmic viscoelastic device injection; deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty; Descemet membrane detachment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; OPHTHALMIC VISCOELASTIC DEVICE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND HEALING;

AIR; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; HUMANS; MICRODISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84875212966     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31826cbe99     Document Type: Article

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