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Evaluation of corneal epithelial and stromal thickness in keratoconus using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

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Publication of this article was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid no. 24592669 for Scientific Research (to N.M.) from the Japanese Ministry of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. The authors would like to thank Enago (www.enago.jp) for the English language review.

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    Naoyuki Maeda, Tomoya Nakagawa, Ritsuko Higashiura, Mutsumi Fuchihata, Shizuka Koh & Kohji Nishida

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Maeda, N., Nakagawa, T., Higashiura, R. et al. Evaluation of corneal epithelial and stromal thickness in keratoconus using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. Jpn J Ophthalmol 58, 389–395 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10384-014-0338-0

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