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Keratoconus

Known as: Conical cornea, Keratoconus [Disease/Finding], Bulging cornea 
A noninflammatory, usually bilateral protrusion of the cornea, the apex being displaced downward and nasally. It occurs most commonly in females at… 
National Institutes of Health

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Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 1BRITTLE CORNEA SYNDROME 2CorneaDermatitis, Atopic

Broader (2)

Corneal DiseasesDisorder of eye

Narrower (2)

Keratoconus Posticus Circumscriptus with Associated MalformationsKeratoconus posticus circumscriptus

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Collagen Cross-linking for Advanced Progressive Keratoconus
Purpose: Collagen cross-linking (CXL) is a safe and effective procedure to stop progression of keratoconus. However, corneas with… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Corneal collagen cross-linking: an introduction and literature review.
Review
2009
Review
2009
DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Taqallit Promontory
Abstract The ‘Burials and Identity’ team of the Desert Migrations Project carried out two main excavations in the 2009 season, at… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Ab initio study on deactivation pathways of excited 9H-guanine.
The complete active space with second-order perturbation theory/complete active space self-consistent-field method was used to… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Femtochemistry of Norrish type-I reactions: III. Highly excited ketones--theoretical.
Time-dependant density functional theory (TDDFT) and ab initio methods (CASSCF and CASMP2) are applied here for the investigation… 
1996
1996
An evaluation of the keratoconic cornea using computerised corneal mapping and ultrasonic measurements of corneal thickness.
1990
1990
4. CONICAL SEAMOUNT: SeaMARC II, ALVIN SUBMERSIBLE, AND SEISMIC-REFLECTION STUDIES 1
Conical Seamount, the edifice drilled at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 778 through 780, is a large seamount on the outer… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Heterogeneity in Keratoconus: Possible Biochemical Basis
Abstract Total protein and collagen content in normal and keratoconus corneas were determined. The protein content (expressed as… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Acoustic Fields of Conical Radiators
R = 0.45 SNR2/3, functions. Considering the fact that modeling and discretization errors, which have not been discussed, always… 
1977
1977
Damage to epithelial basement membrane by thermokeratoplasty.
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