Split cornea transplantation: Relationship between storage time of split donor tissue and outcome

Ophthalmology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 899-907

  Heindl, Ludwig M ^a   Riss, Stephan ^b   Adler, Werner ^c   Bucher, Franziska ^a   Hos, Deniz ^a   Cursiefen, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR STROMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL DENSITY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DEEP ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DONOR; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLIT CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877786138     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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