Simple test to confirm cleavage with air between Descemet's membrane and stroma during big-bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
Accepted 19 October 2006.
We describe a simple test to confirm big-bubble formation in deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty by observing the position and movements of small air bubbles injected into the anterior chamber through a limbal paracentesis. The test also allows evaluation of the extension of Descemet's membrane cleavage from the posterior stroma relative to the margins of the corneal trephination.
Corresponding author: Luigi Fontana, MD, PhD, Unità Operativa di Oculistica, Ospedale Maggiore, Largo Nigrisoli 2, 40133 Bologna, Italy.
From the Unità Operativa di Oculistica, Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna, Italy.
No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
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