Urgent need for normalization of corneal graft quality controls on French eye banks

Transplantation

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1299-1302

  Thuret, Gilles ^a,b   Manissolle, Chloé ^b   Acquart, Sophie ^c   Garraud, Olivier ^c   Campos Guyotat, Lydia ^b   Maugery, Jean ^a   Gain, Philippe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c Loire Auvergne Eye Bank   (France)

Author keywords

Cell count; Cornea; Endothelium; Graft; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EYEBANK; FRANCE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY;

CELL COUNT; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 8644253444     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000130970.27013.B9     Document Type: Article

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