Does Endothelial Cell Survival Differ Between DSEK and Standard PK?

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 367-368

  Price Jr , Francis W ^a   Price, Marianne O ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61349134775     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.11.017     Document Type: Editorial

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