Surgical Treatment of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency: Are We Really Transplanting Stem Cells?

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 154-155

  Shimmura, Shigeto ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIRIDIA; BURN; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA SURGERY; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 47549113235     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.04.025     Document Type: Editorial

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