Laser IVCM can be used to establish the features of the normal limbus.
The identified features demonstrate quantitative changes in the basal epithelium between the limbus and the central cornea and morphological differences between pigmented or non-pigmented studied subjects.
Further studies should be performed to correlate with histology the possible crypts which were observed in this study.
2012-03-16
Eng.
The British journal of ophthalmology
Division of Ophthalmology and visual sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK.
Br J Ophthalmol. 2012 Apr;96(4):530-6
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