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Preoperative slit-lamp photograph of the right eye showing advanced keratoconus with a full-thickness central corneal scar from previous hydrops.
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The patient was a 20-year-old Indian male with bilateral advanced keratoconus and previous hydrops in the right eye resulting in corneal scarring (Figure 5).
(A) One-year postoperative slit-lamp photograph of the right eye showing a clear graft. Some residual stromal scarring can be seen. (B) One-year postoperative optical coherence tomographic image of the right eye showing good graft-host apposition. Note the graft with tapered ends to match the recipient residual stromal bed.
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Table 1 for visual outcome). The postoperative result shows excellent graft-host apposition on anterior segment ocular computed tomography (Visante, Zeiss, Munich, Germany; Figure 6A and B) The graft with the tapered ends matches the recipient bed with the peripheral rim of residual corneal stroma from incomplete corneal stroma removal.