Corneal and External Disorders
Corneal Cross-linking in Thin Corneas: From Origins to State of the Art
Farhad Hafezi, Mark Hillen, Léonard Kollros
touchREVIEWS in Ophthalmology. 2022;16(1):13–6 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17925/USOR.2022.16.1.13
Keratoconus is the most common corneal ectasia. It disproportionally affects children and adolescents and involves a focal weakening of the biomechanical integrity of the cornea.1 The disease typically manifests as a progressive thinning and bulging of the cornea, which causes the characteristic cone-like protrusions, resulting in increasing myopia, irregular astigmatism and ever-worsening quality of vision.1–3 Historically, the […]