Randomized, Prospective Comparison of Precut vs Surgeon-Dissected Grafts for Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Price, Marianne O ^a   Baig, Kashif M ^b   Brubaker, Jacob W ^c   Price Jr , Francis W ^b  

^a Lautert)   (United States)

^b PRICE VISION GROUP   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL LOSS; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING AUTOMATED ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRECUT PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SURGEON DISSECTED GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 45449097829     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.02.024     Document Type: Article

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