Morphological modification of the cornea after standard and transepithelial corneal cross-linking as imaged by anterior segment optical coherence tomography and laser scanning in vivo confocal microscopy

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 855-861

  Mastropasqua, Leonardo ^a   Nubile, Mario ^a   Lanzini, Manuela ^a   Calienno, Roberta ^a   Mastropasqua, Rodolfo ^b   Agnifili, Luca ^a   Toto, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anterior Segment OCT; Corneal Cross linking; In vivo confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEAL CROSS LINKING; CROSS LINKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL COUNT; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL EDEMA; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBOFLAVIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879165783     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182844c60     Document Type: Article

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