TY - BOOK AU - Radwa Taher Hassan Elzanaty AU - Ahmed Abdelazim Abdelkader , AU - Hazem Mohamed Yassin , AU - Mohamed Mahmoud Elsayed , TI - The role of corneal collagen cross-linking in stabilizing ectatic corneal conditions / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Radwa Taher Hassan Elzanaty , KW - Corneal collagen cross-linking KW - Ophthalmology KW - Stabilizing ectatic corneal conditions N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Ophthalmology; Issued also as CD N2 - Patients in group 1,2 and 3 showed no significant differences in their BSCVA achieved by the end of the year. Group 1 and 2 patients when compared also revealed no statistical difference in their topographic or biomechanical changes by the end of the study. Patients who underwent combined intacs and CXL showed significantly more improvement in refractive astigmatism than group 1 which can be explained by the better corneal symmetry achieved in these patients as revealed by the IVA results. No serious or permanent complications were encountered in all patients included in our study ER -