Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty
"Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D057111
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.540.825.374.112 E04.936.580.262
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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