TY - BOOK AU - Aya Hussein Ibrahim AU - Mohammed Hassan Hosny , AU - Mohsen Emad Eldin Salem , AU - Wael Ahmed Ewais , TI - Recent combined extraocular modalities in the treatment of keratoconus / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Aya Hussein Ibrahim , KW - Contact lenses KW - Extraocular modalities KW - Keratoconus N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Ophthalmology; Issued also as CD N2 - Aim of work the purpose of this study is to review the medical literature regarding the recent extraocular modities in treatment of progressive keratoconus and their combination as regard safety , effcacy and sequence of treatment . Keratoconus (KC) is a progressive non inflammatory ectatic bilateral (but usually asymmetrical) disese of the cornea characterized by paraxial stromal thinning that leads to corneal surface distortion ER -