Morphologic and volumetric studies of the Meibomian glands in elderly human eyelids

Cornea

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 610-614

  Kozak, Igor ^a   Bron, Anthony J ^b   Kucharova, Karolina ^c   Kluchova, Darina ^d   Marsala, Martin ^c   Heichel, Chris W ^a   Tiffany, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

3 dimensional reconstruction; Histopathology; Immunohistochemistry; Meibomian gland; Morphologic studies

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MICROSCOPY; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34547457606     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318041f0d2     Document Type: Article

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