Normative values for corneal nerve morphology assessed using corneal confocal microscopy: A multinational normative data set

Diabetes Care

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 838-843

  Tavakoli, Mitra ^a   Ferdousi, Maryam ^a   Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^a   Morris, Julie ^a   Pritchard, Nicola ^b   Zhivov, Andrey ^c   Ziegler, Dan ^d,e   Pacaud, Danièle ^f   Romanchuk, Kenneth ^f   Perkins, Bruce A ^g   Lovblom, Leif E ^g   Bril, Vera ^h   Robinson Singleton, J ⁱ   Smith, Gordon ⁱ   Boulton, Andrew J M ^a   Efron, Nathan ^b   Malik, Rayaz A ^a,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER BRANCH DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER LENGTH; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER TORTUOSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; EVALUATION STUDY; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933674859     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc14-2311     Document Type: Article

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