Handheld slit beam techniques to facilitate DMEK and DALK

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 722-724

  Burkhart, Zachary N ^a   Feng, Matthew T ^a   Price, Marianne O ^b   Price, Francis W ^a  

^a PRICE VISION GROUP   (United States)

^b Lautert)   (United States)

Author keywords

big bubble; corneal transplantation; DALK; DMEK; lamellar keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ILLUMINATION; KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP;

DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; LIGHTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84876283449     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31827797e7     Document Type: Article

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