Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 207-209 , July 2007

No sutures corneal grafting—A novel use of overlay sutures and fibrin glue in Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty

  • Niro Narendran

      Affiliations

    • Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
    • ,
  • Shabbir Mohamed

      Affiliations

    • Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
    • ,
  • Sunil Shah

      Affiliations

    • Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
    • Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, West Midlands, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 7870 557192.

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PII: S1367-0484(07)00031-8

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2007.02.007

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 207-209 , July 2007

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