The application of in vivo laser confocal microscopy to the diagnosis and evaluation of meibomian gland dysfunction

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 1263-1271

  Matsumoto, Yukihiro ^a   Sato, Enrique Adan ^a   Ibrahim, Osama M A ^a   Dogru, Murat ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; ROSE BENGAL;

ACINAR CELL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVAPORATION; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; LACRIMATION; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIRMER TEST; SLIT LAMP; STAINING; TEAR FILM;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; STAINING AND LABELING; TEARS;

EID: 48949116407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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