Repeatability of measuring corneal subbasal nerve fiber length in individuals with type 2 diabetes

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 245-248

  Efron, Nathan ^a   Edwards, Katie ^a   Roper, Nicola ^b   Pritchard, Nicola ^a   Sampson, Geoff P ^a   Shahidi, Ayda M ^a   Vagenas, Dimitrios ^a   Russell, Anthony ^c   Graham, Jim ^b   Dabbah, Mohammad A ^b   Malik, Rayaz A ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corneal nerves; Diabetes; Neuropathy; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORNEA CELL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PLEXUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77957576472     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e3181eea915     Document Type: Article

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