Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?

Keratoconus is a disease characterized by progressive thinning, bulging, and distortion of the cornea. Advanced cases usually present with loss of vision due to high irregular astigmatism. A majority of these cases require surgical intervention. This review provides an update on the current treatmen...

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Autores principales: Arnalich-Montiel, Francisco, Alió del Barrio, Jorge L., Alió, Jorge L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4716637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26783544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40662-016-0033-y
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description Keratoconus is a disease characterized by progressive thinning, bulging, and distortion of the cornea. Advanced cases usually present with loss of vision due to high irregular astigmatism. A majority of these cases require surgical intervention. This review provides an update on the current treatment modalities of corneal surgery available for the management of advanced corneal ectasias.
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spelling pubmed-47166372016-01-19 Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes? Arnalich-Montiel, Francisco Alió del Barrio, Jorge L. Alió, Jorge L. Eye Vis (Lond) Review Keratoconus is a disease characterized by progressive thinning, bulging, and distortion of the cornea. Advanced cases usually present with loss of vision due to high irregular astigmatism. A majority of these cases require surgical intervention. This review provides an update on the current treatment modalities of corneal surgery available for the management of advanced corneal ectasias. BioMed Central 2016-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4716637/ /pubmed/26783544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40662-016-0033-y Text en © Arnalich-Montiel et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Arnalich-Montiel, Francisco
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Alió, Jorge L.
Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
title Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
title_full Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
title_fullStr Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
title_full_unstemmed Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
title_short Corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
title_sort corneal surgery in keratoconus: which type, which technique, which outcomes?
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4716637/
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