Corneal nerve fibre damage precedes diabetic retinopathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 431-438

  Bitirgen, G ^a   Ozkagnici, A ^a   Malik, R A ^b   Kerimoglu, H ^a  

^a NECMETTIN ERBAKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR STROMAL KERATOCYTE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER DAMAGE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NON PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; OPTIC NERVE LESION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS;

EID: 84896127757     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dme.12324     Document Type: Article

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