An accurate method to determine Bowman's layer thickness in vivo in the human cornea

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2354-2359

  Germundsson, Johan ^a   Fagerholm, Per ^a   Koulikovska, Marina ^a   Lagali, Neil S ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOWMAN LAYER THICKNESS; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861162306     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8565     Document Type: Article

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