In vivo laser confocal microscopic findings of corneal stromal dystrophies

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1168-1173

  Kobayashi, Akira ^a   Fujiki, Keiko ^b   Fujimaki, Takuro ^b   Murakami, Akira ^b   Sugiyama, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA STROMA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; TGFB1 GENE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL STROMA; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SULFOTRANSFERASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 34548631215     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.9.1168     Document Type: Article

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