Thickness distribution of fresh and preserved human eardrums measured with confocal microscopy

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 256-264

  Kuypers, Liesbeth C ^a   Decraemer, Willem F ^a   Dirckx, Joris J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confocal fluorescence microscopy; Histology; Modeling; Pars tensa; Thickness; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

2 (ETHYLMERCURITHIO)BENZOXAZOLE 5 CARBOXYLATE SODIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; EARDRUM; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; STERNUM; THICKNESS; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 33645093426     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000187044.73791.92     Document Type: Article

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