title: Surgical treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency: are we really transplanting stem cells?
authors.forename: Shigeto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimmura
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsubota
mesh_terms: D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003229:Conjunctival Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000637:transplantation; D019573:Epithelium, Corneal / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D016850:Limbus Corneae / Q000473:pathology*; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology*