Changes in the lens epithelium with respect to cataractogenesis - Light microscopic and Scheimpflug densitometric analysis of the cataractous and the clear lens of diabetics and non-diabetics

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 596-602

  Tkachov, Sergey I ^a   Lautenschläger, Christine ^a   Ehrich, Dirk ^a   Struck, Hans Gert ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related cataract; Cataractogenesis; Diabetes mellitus type II; Lens epithelium; Scheimpflug densitometry; Tyndallometry

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AGED; ANALYZER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS EPITHELIUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENILE CATARACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CATARACT; CELL COUNT; DENSITOMETRY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646778778     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0091-7     Document Type: Article

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