Anterior basement membrane corneal dystrophy and pseudo-unilateral lattice corneal dystrophy in a patient with recurrent corneal erosions

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1124-1127

  Aldave, Anthony J ^a   Lin, Danny Y ^a   Principe, Alexandre H ^a   Yellore, Vivek S ^a   Weissman, Barry A ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EROSION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EXON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 2942537993     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2003.11.065     Document Type: Article

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