Study of conjunctival goblet cell morphology and tear film stability in pseudoexfoliation syndrome

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 478-483

  Kozobolis, Vassilios P ^a,b,c   Christodoulakis, Emmanouil V ^a,b   Naoumidi, Irene I ^b   Siganos, Charalambos S ^a,b   Detorakis, Efstathios T ^c   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b Vardinoyannion Eye Institute of Crete   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; SCHIRMER TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEAR FILM;

EID: 3543045552     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0865-3     Document Type: Article

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