Laser-assisted penetrating keratoplasty: 1-Year results in patients using a laser-welded anvil-profiled graft

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 664-670.e2

  Canovetti, Annalisa ^a   Malandrini, Alex ^a   Lenzetti, Ivo ^a   Rossi, Francesca ^b   Pini, Roberto ^b   Menabuoni, Luca ^a  

^a MISERICORDIA E DOLCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; LASER; LASER ASSISTED PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; LASER WELDING; OPHTHALMIC DIODE LASER; OPHTHALMIC FEMTOSECOND LASER; PACHYMETRY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; VISUAL ACUITY; CELL COUNT; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; KERATOMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTIGMATISM; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908501203     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: 18791891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2014.07.010     Document Type: Article

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