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Corneal Diseases in Children: Surgery

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Corneal Diseases in Children

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This chapter will discuss corneal surgery in children, focusing on how to modify surgical techniques for pediatric patients. Indications for surgery, surgical techniques, and postoperative care will be discussed for surgeries including variations of keratoplasty, (penetrating, anterior lamellar, and endothelial), keratoprosthesis surgery, and ocular surface reconstruction. Ophthalmologists who diagnose, surgically manage, and care for children with corneal eye disease are rare and published treatment guidelines for pediatric corneal surgery are even rarer.

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Christina Prescott and Kathryn Colby declare that they have no conflict of interest. No human or animal studies were performed by the authors for this chapter.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Christina Rapp Prescott

  2. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave, MC2114, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Kathryn Colby

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Prescott, C.R., Colby, K. (2017). Corneal Diseases in Children: Surgery. In: Colby, K. (eds) Corneal Diseases in Children. Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55298-9_8

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