Midterm results of cultivated autologous and allogeneic limbal epithelial transplantation in limbal stem cell deficiency

Developments in Ophthalmology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-70

  Pauklin, Mikk ^a   Fuchsluger, Thomas A ^a   Westekemper, Henrike ^a   Steuhl, Klaus P ^a   Meller, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AMNION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL; TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77956196504     PISSN: 02503751     EISSN: 16622790     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000315020     Document Type: Article

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