In vivo confocal microscopy of megalocornea with central mosaic dystrophy [4]

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 102-105

  Uçakhan, Ömür Ö ^a   Kanpolat, Ayfer ^a   Yilmaz, Nurgül ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Central cloudy dystrophy; Central mosaic dystrophy; In vivo confocal microscopy; Megalocornea; Posterior crocodile shagreen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CASE REPORT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA OPACITY; ENDOTHELIUM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; MALE; MICROSCOPE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SLIT LAMP; STROMA;

CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL STROMA; EYE ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 14744296599     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.00959.x     Document Type: Letter

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