Delayed Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing After Penetrating Keratoplasty in Individuals With Lattice Corneal Dystrophy

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-174

  Kawamoto, Koji ^a   Morishige, Naoyuki ^a   Yamada, Naoyuki ^a   Chikama, Tai Ichiro ^a   Nishida, Teruo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LEUKOMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33745365256     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.01.077     Document Type: Article

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