In vivo confocal microscopy in the patients with cornea farinata

Cornea

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 578-581

  Kobayashi, Akira ^a   Ohkubo, Shinji ^b   Tagawa, Shigeki ^b   Uchiyama, Kayo ^b   Sugiyama, Kazuhisa ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cornea; Cornea farinata; Fleck dystrophy; Lipofuscin; Pre Descemet's dystrophy

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA FARINATA; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; DYSTROPHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; STROMA CELL;

AGED; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL OPACITY; CORNEAL STROMA; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0042344712     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200308000-00019     Document Type: Article

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