Correction of hyperopia with astigmatism following radial keratotomy with daily disposable plus spherical contact lens: a case report
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Implantation of a Multifocal Toric Intraocular Lens after Radial Keratotomy and Cross-Linking with Hyperopia and Astigmatism Residues: A Case Report
Radial keratotomy is a refractive surgical technique, widely used in the 80s and early 90s to correct myopia and astigmatism, but now overcome by more recent laser techniques. Important consequences, often in patients with more than 45 years of age, are progressive hyperopic shift and/or an increase in corneal astigmatism, whose main cause seems to be an increase in the curvature radius of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Ophthalmology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0165-5701,1573-2630
DOI: 10.1007/s10792-017-0702-4