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Surgical Procedures, Operative > Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures > Refractive Surgical Procedures > Corneal Transplantation > Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty
... > Therapeutics > Biological Therapy > Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy > Tissue Transplantation > Corneal Transplantation > Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty
Surgical Procedures, Operative > Transplantation > Tissue Transplantation > Corneal Transplantation > Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty

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Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty  

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  • A surgical procedure or KERATOPLASTY involving selective stripping and replacement of diseased host DESCEMET MEMBRANE and CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM with a suitable and healthy donor posterior lamella. The advantage to this procedure is that the normal corneal surface of the recipient is retained, thereby avoiding corneal surface incisions and sutures.

History note

  • 2010

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D057111

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