The IC3D classification of the corneal dystrophies;La Clasificación IC3D de las distrofias corneales

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Weiss, Jayne S ^a,b   Moller H U ^c   Lisch, Walter ^d   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^e   Aldave, Anthony J ^f   Belin, Michael W ^g   Kivelä, Tero ^h   Busin, Massimo ⁱ   Munier, Francis L ^j   Seitz, Berthold ^k   Sutphin, John ^l   Bredrup, Cecilie ^m   Mannis, Mark J ⁿ   Rapuano, Christopher J ^o   Van Rij, Gabriel ^p   Kim, Eung Kweon ^q   Klintworth, Gordon K ^r  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Klinikum Hanau   (Germany)

^e KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ Villa Serena Hospital   (Italy)

^j JULES GONIN EYE HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^k SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^p ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^q Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^r DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Corneal dystrophy; Corneal histopathology; Epithelial basement membrane dystrophy; Epithelial recurrent erosion dystrophy; Eponym; Gene; Genetic corneal disease; Inherited corneal disease; Key reference; Mutation; Subepithelial mucinous corneal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

BORATE SODIUM; COLLAGEN TYPE 8; CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 3; DECORIN; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; GELSOLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 4 MEMBER 11; SULFOTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CENTRAL CLOUDY DYSTROPHY FO FRANCOIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONGENITAL HEREDITARY ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY 1; CONGENITAL HEREDITARY ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY 2; CONGENITAL STROMAL CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LATTICE DYSTROPHY; CORNEA STROMA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIAL BASEMENT MEMBRANE DYSTROPHY; EPITHELIAL RECURRENT EROSION DYSTROPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLECK CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; FUCHS ENDOTHELIAL CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; GELATINOUS DROP LIKE CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; GRANULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY TYPE 1; GRANULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY TYPE 2; GRAYSON WILBRANDT CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; LISCH EPITHELIAL CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; LITERATURE; MACULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; MEESMANN CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POSTERIOR AMORPHOUS CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; POSTERIOR POLYMORPHOUS CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; PRE DESCEMET CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REIS BUCKLERS CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; SCHNYDER CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; SUBEPITHELIAL MUCINOUS CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; SYMPTOM; TGFB1 DYSTROPHY; THIEL BEHNKE CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X LINKED ENDOTHELIAL CORNEAL DYSTROPHY;

CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 65349167054     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31817780fb     Document Type: Article

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