Central corneal thickness and corneal endothelial characteristics in healthy, cataract, and glaucoma patients

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1195-1199

  Galgauskas, Saulius ^a   Krasauskaite, Dalia ^a   Pajaujis, Mykolas ^a   Juodkaite, Grazina ^a   Asoklis, Rimvydas Stanislovas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

CCT; Cornea; ECD; Endothelium

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; SENILE CATARACT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84930478273     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S31821     Document Type: Article

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