Confocal microscopy in chronic and delayed mustard gas keratopathy

Cornea

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 889-894

  Jafarinasab, Mohammad Reza ^a   Zarei Ghanavati, Siamak ^b   Kanavi, Mojgan Rezaei ^c   Karimian, Farid ^a   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^d   Javadi, Mohammad Ali ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Central Eye Bank of Iran   (Iran)

^d JANBAZAN MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER JMERC   (Iran)

Author keywords

confocal; in vivo microscopy; mustard gas; mustard gas keratopathy

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATOPATHY; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MUSTARD GAS KERATOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CELL COUNT; CHEMICAL BURN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; EYE BURN; PATHOLOGY; WAR;

ADULT; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CELL COUNT; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORNEAL DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BURNS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSTARD GAS; WAR;

EID: 77955176365     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181ca324c     Document Type: Article

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