Vessel cauterization as a therapeutic adjunct in persistent disciform corneal stromal edema
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Vessel Cauterization as a Therapeutic Adjunct in Persistent Disciform Corneal Stromal Edema
This is a case report of a symptomatic non-clearing, vascularized, disciform, corneal stromal edema with a feeder vessel that has remained refractory to medical therapy of antiviral, steroid, and antibiotics, for a period of three weeks, but showed a rapid improvement in visual acuity of 0.1 Log mar within five days of feeder vessel cauterization, together with improvement of two psychometric s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nigerian Journal of Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1117-6806
DOI: 10.4103/1117-6806.137311