Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde
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Klin Monbl Augenheilkd · Aug 2013
[Characteristics of traumatic versus spontaneous wound dehiscence after penetrating keratoplasty].
After penetrating keratoplasty (PK) patients remain at risk for wound dehiscence at the graft-host junction even years after surgery. The aim of our study was, firstly, to assess the site-specific characteristics between traumatic and spontaneous wound dehiscence at the graft-host junction and, secondly, to determine the incidence of traumatic and spontaneous wound dehiscence. ⋯ The difference between both groups was significant regarding the localisation, the extent and the clarity of the re-sutured grafts. The nasal inferior part was the most affected area in traumatic cases probably as a result of indirect, contrecoup injuries, and the temporal part in spontaneous wound dehiscence probably due to direct minor forces.