Introduction of epithelial cells in the flap-graft interface during descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 936-937

  Saelens, Isabelle E Y ^a   Bartels, Marjolijn C ^a   Van Rij, Gabriel ^a   Dinjens, Winand N M ^a   Mooy, Cornelia M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; EYE DROPS; FLUOROMETHOLONE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PREDNISOLONE PIVALATE;

AGED; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING AUTOMATED ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOPATHY; KERATOPLASTY; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CYSTS; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KARYOTYPING; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE DONORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 67650493144     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.143     Document Type: Letter

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