A portable microkeratome for harvesting the human anterior corneal surface

Cornea

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 443-446

  Sarayba, Melvin A ^a   Tungsiripat, Tulaya ^a   Sweet, Paula M ^a   Chuck, Roy S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior corneal surface; Donor corneas; Microkeratome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATECTOMY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MICROKERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACUUM;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; VACUUM;

EID: 3042784589     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000122701.49054.c9     Document Type: Article

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