Incidence of recipient Descemet membrane remnants at the donor-to-stromal interface after descemetorhexis in endothelial keratoplasty

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1689-1690

  Dapena, Isabel ^a   Ham, Lisanne ^a   Moutsouris, Kyros ^a   Melles, Gerrit R J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA SURGERY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMETORHEXIS; HUMAN; LETTER; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING;

EID: 78649835543     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2010.186189     Document Type: Letter

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