Corneal endothelial findings in a Czech patient with compound heterozygous mutations in KERA

Ophthalmic Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 252-254

  Dudakova, Lubica ^a   Palos, Michalis ^a   Hardcastle, Alison J ^b   Liskova, Petra ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATOCAN; KERA PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEOGLYCAN; STOP CODON;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA PLANA; CZECH (PEOPLE); DENSITY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LETTER; MIDDLE AGED; SENILE ARCH; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; CELL COUNT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORNEA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; GENETICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; STOP CODON;

CELL COUNT; CODON, NONSENSE; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEOGLYCANS;

EID: 84902311508     PISSN: 13816810     EISSN: 17445094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13816810.2013.811272     Document Type: Letter

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