To examine the differences in manual endothelial cell counting methods in French eye banks and to analyse whether these differences could explain some substantial discrepancies observed in endothelial cell density (ECD) for corneas made available for transplant.
Cell Survival and Adhesion in Cancers and Graffs Research Group, EA 3063, Faculty of Medicine, and Ophthalmology Department, Bellevue University Hospital, Saint-Etienne, France. gilles.thuret@univ-st-etienne.fr
