Nine-Year Follow-Up of Intacs Implantation for Keratoconus
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Nine-Year Follow-Up of Intacs Implantation for Keratoconus
PURPOSE To present a case of nine- year bilateral Intacs (Addition Technology, Inc, Fremont, California, USA) implantation for early stage keratoconus. METHODS A 25-year-old male underwent bilateral Intacs implantation for the management of keratoconus and hardcontact-lens intolerance (stage 1) in 1999. RESULTS Nine years postoperatively, spherical equivalent refraction changed from preoper...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Ophthalmology Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1874-3641
DOI: 10.2174/1874364100903010077