Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma

Congenital anterior staphyloma entails grave visual prognosis. The majority of reported patients have undergone enucleation. We report a promising result of staphylectomy with implantation of a keratoprosthesis and a glaucoma drainage device in a seven-month-old child with a large, congenital anteri...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, Bhaskar, Choudhari, Nikhil Shreeram, Neog, Aditya, Latka, Supriya, Iyer, Geetha K
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569392
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95883
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author Srinivasan, Bhaskar
Choudhari, Nikhil Shreeram
Neog, Aditya
Latka, Supriya
Iyer, Geetha K
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description Congenital anterior staphyloma entails grave visual prognosis. The majority of reported patients have undergone enucleation. We report a promising result of staphylectomy with implantation of a keratoprosthesis and a glaucoma drainage device in a seven-month-old child with a large, congenital anterior staphyloma.
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spelling pubmed-33618262012-06-01 Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma Srinivasan, Bhaskar Choudhari, Nikhil Shreeram Neog, Aditya Latka, Supriya Iyer, Geetha K Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Congenital anterior staphyloma entails grave visual prognosis. The majority of reported patients have undergone enucleation. We report a promising result of staphylectomy with implantation of a keratoprosthesis and a glaucoma drainage device in a seven-month-old child with a large, congenital anterior staphyloma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3361826/ /pubmed/22569392 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95883 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Srinivasan, Bhaskar
Choudhari, Nikhil Shreeram
Neog, Aditya
Latka, Supriya
Iyer, Geetha K
Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
title Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
title_full Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
title_fullStr Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
title_full_unstemmed Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
title_short Boston keratoprosthesis and Ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
title_sort boston keratoprosthesis and ahmed glaucoma valve for visual rehabilitation in congenital anterior staphyloma
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569392
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95883
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