Comparison of donor insertion techniques for Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1383-1388

  Mehta, Jodhbir S ^a,b   Por, Yong Ming ^a   Poh, Rebekah ^b   Beuerman, Roger W ^b,c   Tan, Donald ^a,b,c  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CELL COUNT; CELL DAMAGE; CELL LOSS; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DESCEMET STRIPPING AUTOMATED ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY;

CELL SURVIVAL; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 54049145940     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.10.1383     Document Type: Article

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