Visual rehabilitation rate after isolated descemet membrane transplantation: Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 252-255

  Ham, Lisanne ^a   Balachandran, Chandra ^a   Verschoor, Christianne A ^a   Van Der Wees, Jacqueline ^a   Melles, Gerrit R J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KERATOPATHY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62449182654     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.619     Document Type: Article

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