Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique

A 40-year-old male presented with bilateral ectasia, contact lens intolerance, and astigmatism >10 D in both eyes. The patient had end-stage pellucid marginal degeneration that warranted surgical treatment. We present a unique surgical technique to stabilize the cornea, minimize astigmatism, impr...

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Autores principales: Al-Motowa, Saeed, Al-Harby, Mosa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5141626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27994396
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.194087
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description A 40-year-old male presented with bilateral ectasia, contact lens intolerance, and astigmatism >10 D in both eyes. The patient had end-stage pellucid marginal degeneration that warranted surgical treatment. We present a unique surgical technique to stabilize the cornea, minimize astigmatism, improve vision and corneal status, and avoid penetrating keratoplasty.
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spelling pubmed-51416262016-12-19 Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique Al-Motowa, Saeed Al-Harby, Mosa Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report A 40-year-old male presented with bilateral ectasia, contact lens intolerance, and astigmatism >10 D in both eyes. The patient had end-stage pellucid marginal degeneration that warranted surgical treatment. We present a unique surgical technique to stabilize the cornea, minimize astigmatism, improve vision and corneal status, and avoid penetrating keratoplasty. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5141626/ /pubmed/27994396 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.194087 Text en Copyright: © Middle East African 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique
title Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique
title_full Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique
title_fullStr Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique
title_full_unstemmed Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique
title_short Surgical Treatment of Corneal Ectasia with Motowa's Trephine and Selective Suturing Technique
title_sort surgical treatment of corneal ectasia with motowa's trephine and selective suturing technique
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5141626/
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