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Throughout this book, we have witnessed the major evolution that corneal graft surgery has experienced over the last two decades. A better understanding of the corneal anatomy and physiology, technical improvements in the management of corneal bank tissue, improvements in surgical instrumentations (such as the availability of femtosecond laser), new surgical techniques that have emerged and have finally been consolidated as better options to the classical penetrating keratoplasty with better results, medical education and, above all, the skills and the talent of corneal surgeons, have made corneal surgery enter a final stage of development since its early beginnings with the description of PKP by Zirm in 1906 and popularized by Castroviejo in 1936. Over all these years, the evolution has been constant and always in the benefit of better techniques, better results and better solutions to corneal blindness.
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Alió, J.L., del Barrio, J.L.A. (2023). Epilogue: Corneal Graft Surgery, a Glance to the Future. In: Alió, J.L., del Barrio, J.L.A. (eds) Modern Keratoplasty. Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32408-6_39
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