Capillaries are present in Bruch's membrane at the ora serrata in the human eye

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1076-1084

  Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a   Addicks, Klaus ^a   Kociok, Norbert ^a   Esser, Peter ^a   Heimann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; MELANIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CAPILLARY; CHOROID; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORA SERRATA; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BRUCH MEMBRANE; CAPILLARIES; EYE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

EID: 0031862693     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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