Transplantation of intact sheets of fetal neural retina with its retinal pigment epithelium in retinitis pigmentosa patients

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 544-550

  Radtke, Norman D ^a,d   Seiler, Magdalene J ^b   Aramant, Robert B ^b   Petry, Heywood M ^b   Pidwell, Diane J ^c  

^a Norton Audubon Hospital   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Retinal Vitreous Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; RETINA TRANSPLANTATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TISSUE TYPING;

ADULT; AGED; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SAFETY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036202158     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(02)01322-3     Document Type: Article

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