Availability of donor corneal tissue for transplantation

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-101

  Raychaudhuri, Amitabha ^a   Raychaudhuri, Manjima ^b   Banerjee, Asit Ranjan ^b  

^a BANKURA SAMMILANI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; SLIT LAMP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 2342545454     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550403400216     Document Type: Article

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