Integration Patterns of Cryopreserved Amniotic Membranes into the Human Cornea

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1927-1935

  Resch, Miklós D ^a   Schlötzer Schrehardt, Ursula ^b   Hofmann Rummelt, Carmen ^b   Sauer, Renate ^b   Kruse, Friedrich E ^b   Beckmann, Matthias W ^b   Seitz, Berthold ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMNION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA SURGERY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNION; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750330012     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.03.065     Document Type: Article

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