lamellar keratoplasty
1lamellar keratoplasty — keratoplasty involving the anterior half of the cornea with the anterior chamber remaining intact. See also deep lamellar endothelial k …
2Automated lamellar keratoplasty — Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty, commonly abbreviated to ALK uses a device called a microkeratome to separate a thin layer of the cornea and create a flap. The flap is then folded back, and the microkeratome removes a thin disc of corneal stroma… …
3keratoplasty — Any surgical modification of the cornea; the removal of a portion of the cornea containing an opacity and the insertion in its place of a piece of cornea of the same size and shape removed from elsewhere. SYN: corneal graft, corneal… …
4keratoplasty — corneal graft; n. an eye operation in which any diseased parts of the cornea are replaced by clear corneal tissue from a donor. All layers of the cornea may need to be replaced (penetrating keratoplasty) or only the superficial layers, the deeper …
5Кератопластика (Keratoplasty), Трансплантация Роговицы Глаза (Comeal Graft) — глазная операция, заключающаяся в замене пораженных болезнью участков роговицы глаза донорским роговичным трансплантатом. Таким образом могут быть заменены все слои роговицы (проникающая кератопластика (penetrating kcratoplasty)) или только ее… …
6refractive keratoplasty — keratoplasty in which a section of cornea is removed from the patient or a donor, shaped to the desired curvature, and inserted either between layers (keratophakia) or on the cornea (keratomileusis), changing its curvature and correcting optical… …
7deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty — a type of endothelial keratoplasty involving transplantation of a deep pocket of the cornea. Called also posterior lamellar endothelial k …
8posterior lamellar endothelial keratoplasty — former name for deep lamellar endothelial k …
9LKP — lamellar keratoplasty …
10LKP — • lamellar keratoplasty …