Morphological and fluorophotometric analysis of the corneal endothelium after radial keratotomy

Cornea

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 471-475

  Tseng, Sung Huei ^a,c   Chen, Fred K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corneal endothelium; Endothelial permeability; Fluorophotometry; Morphometric analysis; Radial keratotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOMETROPIA; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL KERATOTOMY;

EID: 0031662809     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-199809000-00003     Document Type: Article

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