Lattice corneal dystrophy, gelsolin type (Meretoja's syndrome)

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 813-819

  Carrwik, Christian ^a   Stenevi, Ulf ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Familial amyloidosis; Gelsolin type; Lattice corneal dystrophy; LCD2; Meretoja's syndrome

Indexed keywords

GELSOLIN; LUBRICATING AGENT;

ATAXIA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CATARACT; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA SENSIBILITY; CORNEA STROMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DRY EYE; EUROPE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRAN; JAPAN; KERATOPLASTY; LATTICE CORNEA DYSTROPHY GELSOLIN TYPE; LENS IMPLANTATION; MERETOJA SYNDROME; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEUROPATHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PARESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

CATARACT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; EYE; FACIES; FEMALE; GELSOLIN; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUBRICANTS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PEDIGREE; SKIN DISEASES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 73349122594     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01686.x     Document Type: Review

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