Influence of the precutting and overseas transportation of corneal grafts for descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty on donor endothelial cell loss

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 741-744

  Yamazoe, Kyoko ^a   Yamazoe, Katsuya ^a,b   Shinozaki, Naoshi ^a   Shimazaki, Jun ^a,b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corneal endothelium; Donor corneas; DSAEK; Eye bank; Specular microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYEBANK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIPPING; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

CELL COUNT; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84879154807     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182732d88     Document Type: Article

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