In vivo confocal microscopy of fuchs endothelial dystrophy before and after endothelial keratoplasty

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 611-618

  Patel, Sanjay V ^a   McLaren, Jay W ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; CORNEAL STROMA; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84877689907     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2013.799     Document Type: Article

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