Clinical significance of owl eye morphologic features by in vivo laser confocal microscopy in patients with cytomegalovirus corneal endotheliitis

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 445-453

  Kobayashi, Akira ^a   Yokogawa, Hideaki ^a   Higashide, Tomomi ^a   Nitta, Koji ^b   Sugiyama, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUI KEN SAISEIKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; GANCICLOVIR; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIITIS; CORNEA ENDOTHELOIITIS; CORNEA OPACITY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LASER CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LIGHT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORPHOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLIT LAMP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CORNEAL EDEMA; CORNEAL STROMA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANCICLOVIR; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 84857455757     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: 18791891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2011.07.026     Document Type: Article

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