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Corneal autograft patches for covering exposed transscleral sutures
T Lifshitz1, A Wender, R Lapid-Gortzak
1Department of Ophthalmology, Soroka Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
This article details the authors' experience with a relatively unknown technique for covering exposed ends of transscleral sutures. During combined transscleral suturing of a posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC IOL) with a penetrating keratoplasty, buttons from the excised recipient cornea are sutured with 10-0 nylon over the protruding suture ends. This technique has been used successfully in four cases.