Automated donor tissue preparation for Descemet Membrane Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMAEK): An experimental study

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-161

  Kymionis, George D ^a   Yoo, Sonia H ^b   Diakonis, Vasilios F ^a   Grentzelos, Michael A ^a   Naoumidi, Irini ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED DONOR TISSUE PREPARATION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET MEMBRANE AUTOMATED ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; MICROSCOPY; RABBITS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79958143411     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20101223-01     Document Type: Article

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