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Corneal ectasia following cataract extraction surgery in a patient with keratoconus: a case report

BACKGROUND: According to experimental and clinical published studies, patients with keratoconus have a genetic predisposition to corneal ectasia; however, ectasia might not be activated or reactivated unless an additional stressful event triggers the disease. Triggering factors are sources of reacti...

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Autores principales: Labiris, Georgios, Panagiotopoulou, Eirini-Kanella, Ntonti, Panagiota, Taliantzis, Sergios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2238-x