The effect of long-term wear of soft lenses of low and high oxygen transmissibility on the corneal epithelium

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1282-1287

  Jalbert, I ^a   Sweeney, D F ^a,b   Stapleton, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal epithelium; Contact lens wear; Epithelial thickness; Hypoxia; In vivo confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; PACHOMETRY; RANK SUM TEST; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTACT LENSES, EXTENDED-WEAR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67650669015     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.307     Document Type: Article

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