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Intracorneal Ring Segments: Complications

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Keratoconus

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Implanting ICRS in keratoconic patients is considered a safe surgical procedure mainly due to the advent of the femtosecond laser technology that provides more precise and predictable size and depth of the stromal tunnels. Actually, most of the intraoperative complications have been described to occur while performing the channels with the manual technique. In this chapter, we will review the different intra and postoperative complications that the corneal surgeon may observe while implanting these devices.

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Ayilin Kılıç and Jorge L. Alió del Barrio declare that they have no conflict of interest.

All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

No animal studies were carried out by the authors for this article.

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  1. Department of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, İstanbul Göz Hastanesi, İstanbul, Turkey

    Aylin Kılıç M.D.

  2. Keratoconus Unit, Department of Refractive Surgery Vissum Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Jorge L. Alió del Barrio M.D., Ph.D.

  3. Division of Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain

    Jorge L. Alió del Barrio M.D., Ph.D.

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Kılıç, A., L. Alió del Barrio , J. (2017). Intracorneal Ring Segments: Complications. In: Alió, J. (eds) Keratoconus. Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43881-8_18

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