Learning curve in Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty: First series of 135 consecutive cases

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2147-2154

  Dapena, Isabel ^a   Ham, Lisanne ^a   Droutsas, Konstantinos ^a   Van Dijk, Korine ^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

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CATARACT; CELL DENSITY; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 80255126817     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.03.037     Document Type: Article

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