In vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy of the cornea in dry eye

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-44

  Erdélyi, Béla ^a,c   Kraak, Robert ^b   Zhivov, Andrey ^b   Guthoff, Rudolf ^b   Németh, János ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Universitätsaugenklinik   (Germany)

^c BAJCSY ZSILINSZKY HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Confocal; Cornea; Dry eye; Lagophthalmos; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; DESQUAMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY EYE; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LACRIMATION; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE;

EID: 34248642258     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0375-6     Document Type: Article

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