Reliability of corneal thickness and endothelial cell density measures

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 344-352

  Nichols, Jason J ^a   Kosunick, Gregory M ^b   Bullimore, Mark A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CORNEA PACHYMETRY; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037838876     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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