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Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty
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This video shows how to suture the graft onto the host cornea. Various suturing techniques including interrupted and continuous sutures are discussed as well as techniques to prevent post-operative astigmatism.
Keywords
- diseased cornea
- donor cornea
- cardinal sutures
- refractive error
- long suture loops
- post-operative
- bites
- graft-host junction
- RK marker
- aligning sutures
- graft suturing
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
References
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About this video
- Author(s)
- Soosan Jacob
- First online
- 12 July 2019
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25348-6_5
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-030-25348-6
- Publisher
- Springer, Cham
- Copyright information
- © The Author(s) 2019