title: [The development of keratoplasty].
abstract: Corneal disease is a serious threat to human health. After recognizing the human cornea and corneal disease in early times, people began to hardly explore its treating method and eventually keratoplasty became one of the effective means. With the advancement of modern medicine and the development of molecular biology, keratoplasty had been greatly improved quantitatively and technically, and stem cell technology also begun to be used in keratoplasty. Although Chinese keratoplasty was already at the forefront of the international, there were still some problems to be solved, such as donor problem, its legal and ethical problems etc., the solution to which need to draw the experience of its history.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical History, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Zhi-ping
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D016039:Corneal Transplantation / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans