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Redefining Forme Fruste Keratoconus

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Keratoconus (KC) and other ectatic diseases have been investigated for more than 150 years. The advent of refractive surgery and the emergence of new treatment modalities for KC have boosted the developments in this field. A vast variety of presentation and progression might be found, and different terminologies have been applied to different presentations. This chapter discusses nomenclature of corneal ectatic diseases along with diagnostic methods. We also present anecdotal clinical examples.

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  1. Instituto de Olhos Renato Ambrósio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Marcella Quaresma Salomão, Louise Pellegrino Gomes Esporcatte, Bernardo T. Lopes & Renato Ambrósio Jr.

  2. Rio de Janeiro Corneal Tomography and Biomechanics Study Group, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Marcella Quaresma Salomão, Louise Pellegrino Gomes Esporcatte, Bernardo T. Lopes & Renato Ambrósio Jr.

  3. Brazilian Study Group of Artificial Intelligence and Corneal Analysis (BrAIN), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil/Maceió, AL, Brazil

    Marcella Quaresma Salomão, Aydano Pamponet Machado & Renato Ambrósio Jr.

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Marcella Quaresma Salomão, Ana Luisa Höffling-Lima, Louise Pellegrino Gomes Esporcatte, Bernardo T. Lopes, Aydano Pamponet Machado & Renato Ambrósio Jr.

  5. Instituto Benjamin Constant, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Marcella Quaresma Salomão

  6. Braga Hospital, Braga, Portugal

    Fernando Faria Correia

  7. School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Fernando Faria Correia

  8. School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Bernardo T. Lopes

  9. Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Nelson Sena Jr. & Renato Ambrósio Jr.

  10. Computing Institute, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil

    Aydano Pamponet Machado

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Salomão, M.Q. et al. (2022). Redefining Forme Fruste Keratoconus. In: Almodin, E., Nassaralla, B.A., Sandes, J. (eds) Keratoconus . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85361-7_72

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