Assessment of the reliability of endothelial cell-density estimates in the presence of pseudoguttata

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-121

  Doughty, Michael J ^a   Jonuscheit, Sven ^a   Button, Norman F ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corneal endothelium; Human; Morphometry; Pseudoguttata; Specular microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CYTOMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGUTTATA; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CORNEAL DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857364621     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1812-8     Document Type: Article

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