Clinical confocal microscopy

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 59-65

  Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a   Jester, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEA INJURY; EYE INFECTION; IMAGING; KERATECTOMY; KERATITIS; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WOUND HEALING;

CORNEA; EYE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031672068     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-199808000-00011     Document Type: Review

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