Clinical outcomes of xeno-free autologous cultivated limbal epithelial transplantation: A 10-year study

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1525-1529

  Sangwan, Virender S ^a   Basu, Sayan ^a   Vemuganti, Geeta K ^a   Sejpal, Kunjal ^a   Subramaniam, Sandhya V ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Souvik ^b   Krishnaiah, Sannapaneni ^a   Gaddipati, Subhash ^a   Tiwari, Shubha ^a   Balasubramanian, Dorairajan ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; EYE DROPS; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AMNION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL BIOPSY; ENTROPION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYE BURN; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMBLEPHARON; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNION; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BURNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054903437     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2011-300352     Document Type: Article

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