A Clinical and Histopathologic Examination of Accelerated TGFBIp Deposition After LASIK in Combined Granular-Lattice Corneal Dystrophy

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 416-419

  Aldave, Anthony J ^a   Sonmez, Baris ^a   Forstot, S Lance ^c   Rayner, Sylvia A ^a   Yellore, Vivek S ^a   Glasgow, Ben J ^a,b  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGO RED; GENOMIC DNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINED GRANULAR LATTICE CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC SCREENING; GLARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; MYOPIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TGFBI GENE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL STROMA; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33847072656     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.11.056     Document Type: Article

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