Although not always successful, buccal mucous membrane allografting combined with corneal lamellar patch grafts is a useful surgical strategy in situations where conjunctival scarring or ...

This membrane is referred to by its medical term as the conjunctiva. When the eyes are bloated and irritated, the minuscule vessels of blood that are found in the conjunctiva become more noticeable.

Biologists had long believed that bringing order and organization to the chaos of molecules inside a cell depended on membrane-bound compartments called organelles, such as the mitochondria.

underwent an erosion repair procedure before the buccal mucous membrane transplant procedure (Table 2). Three initial repairs involved a corneal patch graft with superficial conjunctival coverage ...