Impact of the cornea donor study on acceptance of corneas from older donors

Cornea

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1441-1445

  Sugar, Alan ^a   Montoya, Monty M ^b   Beck, Roy ^c   Cowden, John W ^d   Dontchev, Mariya ^c   Gal, Robin L ^c   Kollman, Craig ^c   Malling, Jackie ^e   Mannis, Mark J ^f   Tennant, Bradley ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SightLife   (United States)

^c JAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e Minnesota Lions Eye Bank   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Midwest Eye Banks   (United States)

Author keywords

cornea transplantation; donor age; eye bank

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; EYEBANK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE BANKS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870236402     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31823f7550     Document Type: Article

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