Correlation between clinical in vivo confocal microscopic and ex vivo histopathologic findings of Salzmann nodular degeneration

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 734-738

  Meltendorf, Christian ^a   Bühren, Jens ^a   Bug, Reinhold ^a   Ohrloff, Christian ^a   Kohnen, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cornea; Histopathology; Immunohistology; Nodular degeneration

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOFENAC; RIMEXOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EYE DISCOMFORT; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; KERATECTOMY; KERATOMETRY; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALZMANN NODULAR DEGENERATION; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTINS; ANTIGENS, CD34; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33750538508     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000214215.75496.a5     Document Type: Article

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