Stage-related therapy of corneal dystrophies

Corneal Dystrophies

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages 116-153

  Seitz, Berthold ^a   Lisch, Walter ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b City Hospital Hanau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84926100265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1159/000324081     Document Type: Chapter

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