In vivo evaluation of ocular demodicosis using laser scanning confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 565-569

  Kojima, Takashi ^a   Ishida, Reiko ^b   Sato, Enrique Adan ^a   Kawakita, Tetsuya ^a   Ibrahim, Osama M A ^a   Matsumoto, Yukihiro ^a   Kaido, Minako ^a   Dogru, Murat ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ishida Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEA TREE OIL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLEPHARITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANDRUFF; DEMODICOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EYELASH; EYELID; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MITE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OCULAR DEMODICOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIRMER TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEAR FUNCTION TEST; VITAL STAIN; AGED; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE INFECTION; LACRIMAL FLUID; MIDDLE AGED; MITE INFESTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; BLEPHARITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; EYELASHES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEARS;

EID: 79952460742     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5477     Document Type: Article

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