Cellular and subbasal nerve alterations in early stage Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy: An in vivo confocal microscopy study

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-49

  Schrems Hoesl, L M ^a   Schrems, W A ^a   Cruzat, A ^a   Shahatit, B M ^a   Bayhan, H A ^a   Jurkunas, U V ^a   Hamrah, P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cornea; corneal nerves; epithelium; Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy; in vivo confocal microscopy; keratocytes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; MALE; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84872239595     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2012.220     Document Type: Article

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