Posterior lamellar keratoplasty using descemetorhexis and organ-cultured donor corneal tissue (Melles technique)

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 933-936

  Nieuwendaal, Carla P ^a   Lapid Gortzak, Ruth ^a   Van Der Meulen, Ivanka J ^a   Melles, Gerrit J R ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corneal transplantation; Organ culture; Posterior lamellar keratoplasty; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCISION; KERATOPATHY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MELLES TECHNIQUE; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; SCLEROTOMY; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE CULTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE DONORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33751116070     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000239002.92989.1a     Document Type: Article

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