Keratoplasty after mustard gas injury: Clinical outcome and histology

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 467-469

  Richter, Miriam N ^a   Wachtlin, Joachim ^a   Bechrakis, Nikolaos E ^a   Hoffmann, Friedrich ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cornea; Corneal transplantation; Histology; Mustard gas inquiry

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT; MUSTARD GAS; STEROID; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEA VASCULARIZATION; DENERVATION; EYE INJURY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATITIS; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROMA CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; CHEMICAL BURN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; EYE BURN; IRAQ; PATHOLOGY; WAR;

BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYE BURNS; HUMANS; IRAQ; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MUSTARD GAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

EID: 33745027179     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000183491.23754.44     Document Type: Article

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