Confocal microscopic characterization of wound repair after photorefractive keratectomy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 487-501

  Møller Pedersen, Torben ^a   Li, Hong Fang ^b   Petroll, W Matthew ^b   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^b   Jester, James V ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EXCIMER LASER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; KERATECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; CORNEAL STROMA; FIBROBLASTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOPIA; RABBITS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 2642703460     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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