Comparison of fresh corneal tissue versus glycerin-cryopreserved corneal tissue in deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 775-781

  Chen, Wei ^a   Lin, Ying ^a   Zhang, Xiaobo ^a   Wang, Lihua ^a   Liu, Mimi ^a   Liu, Jingbo ^a   Ye, Ya ^a   Sun, Li ^a   Ma, Huixiang ^a   Qu, Jia ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRESH CORNEAL TISSUE; GLYCERIN CRYOPRESERVED CORNEAL TISSUE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NERVE REGENERATION; PACHYMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROMAL OPACITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; DONOR; EYE REFRACTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; GLYCEROL;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; GLYCEROL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449127596     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3422     Document Type: Article

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