In vivo confocal microscopic characterisation of the cornea in chronic graft-versus-host disease related severe dry eye disease

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 160-165

  Steger, B ^a   Speicher, L ^a   Philipp, W ^a   Bechrakis, N E ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA STROMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY EYE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE MALFORMATION; NERVE PLEXUS; OPTIC NERVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DENDRITIC CELL; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; INNERVATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

DYE; FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; CORNEAL STROMA; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LISSAMINE GREEN DYES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TEARS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921538501     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305072     Document Type: Article

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