Standardized 'no-touch' donor tissue preparation for DALK and DMEK: Harvesting undamaged anterior and posterior transplants from the same donor cornea

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-150

  Groeneveld Van Beek, Esther A ^a   Lie, Jessica T ^a   Van Der Wees, Jacqueline ^a   Bruinsma, Marieke ^a   Melles, Gerrit R J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE OCULAR SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

corneal transplantation; deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty; descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty; eye bank; graft preparation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIAL CELL DENSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT CONTACT LENS; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TREPHINE;

AGED; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84874255836     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2012.02462.x     Document Type: Article

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