Station two
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A

B
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This patient who suffered keratoconus could not use contact lenses because of steepening of the cornea. A procedure was carried out in which a donor corneal lenticule (A) was sutured to the bare epithelial basement membrane (B).

a. What is this procedure?

b. What is the effect of this procedure on a keratoconic cornea?

a

 

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