The role of Bowman's layer in corneal regeneration after phototherapeutic keratectomy: A prospective study using in vivo confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4192-4198

  Lagali, Neil ^a   Germundsson, Johan ^a   Fagerholm, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA OPACITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE REGENERATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WOUND HEALING; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; EXCIMER LASER; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70349229389     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3781     Document Type: Article

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