Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy: A Systematic Immunofluorescence Study of Collagen Type VIII Suggests

Esben Nielsen1, Kim Nielsen, Anders Ivarsen

  • 1*Department of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; and †Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. N. S. Greenhill and P. F. Davis are now with Trinity Bioactives Ltd, Gracefield, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Cornea
|April 15, 2016
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