Central corneal thickness in patients with congenital aniridia

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 221-224

  Whitson, Jess T ^a   Liang, Chanping ^a   Godfrey, David G ^b   Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a   Patel, Dharmendra ^a   Fellman, Ronald L ^b   Starita, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Glaucoma Associates of Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Aniridia; Central comeal thickness; Confocal microscopy through focusing; Keratocyte; Pachymetry; PAX6 gene

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIRIDIA; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIRIDIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 32044440323     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000152487.16012.40     Document Type: Article

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