Current status of limbal conjunctival autograft

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 224-232

  Basti, Surendra ^a,c   Rao, Srinivas K ^b  

^a St Francis Hospital   (United States)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA SURGERY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033929045     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-200008000-00003     Document Type: Article

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