More efficient use of donor corneal tissue with Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK): Two lamellar keratoplasty procedures with one donor cornea

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1265-1266

  Lie, J T ^a   Groeneveld van Beek, E A ^a   Ham, L ^a   Van Der Wees, J ^a   Melles, Gerrit R J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORNEA; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DEEP LAMELLAR ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; KERATOPLASTY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE GRAFT; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION;

CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 77956609289     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.171629     Document Type: Letter

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