Standardized "no-touch" technique for descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-94

  Dapena, Isabel ^a   Moutsouris, Kyros ^a   Droutsas, Konstantinos ^a   Ham, Lisanne ^a   Van Dijk, Korine ^a   Melles, Gerrit R J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA TUNNEL INCISION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMETORHEXIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

CELL COUNT; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78651307770     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.334     Document Type: Article

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