Toxic anterior segment syndrome following penetrating keratoplasty

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1677-1681

  Maier, Philip ^a   Birnbaum, Florian ^a   Böhringer, Daniel ^a   Reinhard, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; ENDOTOXIN;

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORGAN CULTURE; PATHOGENESIS; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOXIC ANTERIOR SEGMENT SYNDROME; CELL COUNT; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EQUIPMENT; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PATHOLOGY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYNDROME;

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CELL COUNT; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; ORGAN PRESERVATION; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SYNDROME;

EID: 58149232749     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.12.1677     Document Type: Article

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