Comparison of accelerated and conventional corneal collagen cross-linking for progressive keratoconus

Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 218-222

  Çinar, Yasin ^a   Cingü, Abdullah Kürşat ^a   Türkcü, Fatih Mehmet ^a   Çinar, Tuba ^b   Yüksel, Harun ^a   Özkurt, Zeynep Gürsel ^a   Çaça, Ihsan ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Diyarbakir Devlet Hastanesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accelerated cross linking; Cross linking; Keratoconus

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED CORNEAL CROSS LINKING; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL CORNEAL CROSS LINKING; CORNEA SURGERY; CORRECTED DISTANT VISUAL ACUITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCORRECTED DISTANT VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YOUNG ADULT;

COLLAGEN; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; RIBOFLAVIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLLAGEN; CORNEA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906716958     PISSN: 15569527     EISSN: 15569535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15569527.2013.834497     Document Type: Article

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