corneal crosslinking

A corneal strengthening procedure that uses riboflavin and light exposure to stiffen the stroma.

• Types

  procedure, treatment

• Aliases

  CXL

• Contributors
  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAnonymous (12632b8b5f) review

• Corneal refractive surgery in keratoconus.

  6 citations

• Sequential same-day excimer laser treatment followed immediately by corneal crosslinking is presented as a way to combine visual rehabilitation with biomechanical stabilization in keratoconus.
• Corneal crosslinking is described as the final step in the combined procedure so the ablation does not remove already crosslinked stroma.

• No direct concept-to-concept edges are published yet.

• keratoconus

  condition1 shared papers
• excimer laser treatment

  procedure, surgical technique1 shared papers
• phototherapeutic keratectomy

  procedure, surgical technique1 shared papers
• photorefractive keratectomy

  procedure, surgical technique1 shared papers
• epithelium-off corneal crosslinking

  procedure, subtype1 shared papers
• same-day sequential treatment

  procedure, workflow1 shared papers
• crosslinked stroma

  tissue1 shared papers
• follow-up data

  measure, evidence1 shared papers