Corneal Neovascularization
"Corneal Neovascularization" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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New blood vessels originating from the corneal veins and extending from the limbus into the adjacent CORNEAL STROMA. Neovascularization in the superficial and/or deep corneal stroma is a sequel to numerous inflammatory diseases of the ocular anterior segment, such as TRACHOMA, viral interstitial KERATITIS, microbial KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS, and the immune response elicited by CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D016510
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.204.290
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| Concept/Terms |
Corneal Neovascularization- Corneal Neovascularization
- Corneal Neovascularizations
- Neovascularization, Corneal
- Neovascularizations, Corneal
- Corneal Angiogenesis
- Angiogenesis, Corneal
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Laser treatment of corneal vessels. Ophthalmology. 1992 Nov; 99(11):1641.