Residual corneal stroma in big-bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty: A histological study in eye-bank corneas

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1463-1465

  McKee, Hamish D ^a   Irion, Luciane C D ^b   Carley, Fiona M ^a   Jhanji, Vishal ^c   Brahma, Arun K ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b National Specialist Ophthalmic Pathology Service   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEAR MARGIN BIG BUBBLE FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DONOR; EX VIVO STUDY; EYEBANK; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RESIDUAL CORNEA STROMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WHITE MARGIN BIG BUBBLE FORMATION;

CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; EYE BANKS; HUMANS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 80053221894     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2011-300360     Document Type: Article

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