The evaluation of the treatment response in obstructive meibomian gland disease by in vivo laser confocal microscopy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 821-829

  Matsumoto, Yukihiro ^a   Shigeno, Yuta ^a   Sato, Enrique Adan ^a   Ibrahim, Osama M A ^a   Saiki, Megumi ^a   Negishi, Kazuno ^a   Ogawa, Yoko ^a   Dogru, Murat ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Inflammation; Meibomian gland dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; EYE DROPS; FLUORESCEIN; FLUOROMETHOLONE; HYALURONIC ACID; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; ROSE BENGAL; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFICACY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYGIENE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; MEIBOGRAPHY; OBSTRUCTIVE MEIBOMIAN GLAND DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIRMER TEST; SLIT LAMP; TEAR FILM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLEPHARITIS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUOROMETHOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEARS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349083532     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-1017-y     Document Type: Article

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