Eye Research Center, The Five Senses Institute, Rassoul Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Eye (Lond). 2020 Jun;34(6):1039-1046. doi: 10.1038/s41433-019-0750-2. Epub 2020 Jan 2.
Corneal keratopigmentation (KTP) has a long history of use in management of patients suffering from disfiguring corneal opacities. Due to progresses and modifications in KTP surgical techniques and its low rate of complications, it is taken into consideration to be used in selected groups of patients for therapeutic or functional indications. In this paper we present an overview on clinical applications of KTP in both cosmetic and functional aspects and also, we discuss the outcomes of KTP and its characteristics in experimental and histopathological studies.
角膜色素沉着术(KTP)在管理患有毁容性角膜混浊的患者方面有着悠久的历史。由于 KTP 手术技术的进步和改进,以及其并发症发生率低,因此考虑将其用于某些特定患者群体的治疗或功能适应证。本文概述了 KTP 在美容和功能方面的临床应用,并讨论了 KTP 的结果及其在实验和组织病理学研究中的特征。