An Investigation of Removed Cultivated Epithelial Transplants in Patients after Allocultivated Corneal Epithelial Transplantation

Cornea

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-242

  Cooper, Leanne J ^a   Fullwood, Nigel J ^a   Koizumi, Noriko ^b   Nakamura, Takahiro ^b   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allograft rejection; Amniotic membrane; Limbal epithelial cells; Transplantation; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AMNION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL BURN; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; PEMPHIGOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPEMPHIGOID; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMNION; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; REOPERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 1642504842     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200404000-00004     Document Type: Article

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