A comprehensive analysis of eye bank-prepared posterior lamellar corneal tissue for use in endothelial keratoplasty

Cornea

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 966-970

  Kelliher, Clare ^a   Engler, Christoph ^a   Speck, Caroline ^a   Ward, Don ^b   Farazdaghi, Sameera ^b   Jun, Albert S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tissue Banks International   (United States)

Author keywords

Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty; Eye bank; Microkeratome; Posterior lamellar keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE PREPARATION;

CELL COUNT; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 70349730264     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31819c4fcf     Document Type: Article

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