Morphometric Analysis of Deposits in Granular and Lattice Corneal Dystrophy: Histopathologic Implications for Phototherapeutic Keratectomy

Cornea

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 380-385

  Seitz, Berthold ^a,b   Behrens, Ashley ^a   Fischer, Martina ^a   Langenbucher, Achim ^a   Naumann, Gottfried O H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corneal deposits; Granular corneal dystrophy; Lattice corneal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LATTICE DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; GRANULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PHOTOTHERAPEUTIC KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL STROMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 2142817228     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200405000-00013     Document Type: Article

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