Bilateral Advanced Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis—a Novel Surgical Approach

Friday, April 17, 2015
KIOSKS (San Diego Convention Center)
Kuttappalayam S. Siddharthan, DO, DNB, FRCS
Piyush Gupta, MS, DNB
Adithya Gowda, MS
Video shows the technique of corneal crescent resection along with a hand-fashioned full thickness banana corneal and amniotic membrane graft in one eye with a temporal peripheral corneal melt and perforation, and a peripheral lamellar corneo-scleral and amniotic membrane graft in the other eye with a 360 degree peripheral corneal thinning with melt (contact lens cornea) in a 55 year old male.