Amniotic membrane in ophthalmology: Indications and limitations

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1954-1961

  Rahman, I ^a   Said, D G ^a,b   Maharajan, V S ^a   Dua, H S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Egypt)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER SURGERY; CELL REGENERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONJUNCTIVAL RECONSTRUCTION; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA PERFORATION; CORNEA TUMOR; DEBRIDEMENT; GLAUCOMA; HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOPATHY; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; OCULAR SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION; OCULOPLASTIC SURGERY; ORBIT RECONSTRUCTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PTERYGIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMBLEPHARON; TRABECULECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMNION; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH;

EID: 70350144854     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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