Meanings of epithelial defects in English

When epithelial defects extended beyond the limbus, they were healed by conjunctival epithelium.

In addition, epithelial defects were evident at the cornea.

Administration of lumican may be beneficial for treating epithelial defects in the cornea and other tissues.

The area of the epithelial defects decreased exponentially with time, indicating a constant rate of epithelial cell migration.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of patients who had neurotrophic corneal ulcers or epithelial defects refractory to standard medical and surgical treatment.

Our results indicate that the administration of interleukin 6 might have clinical applications in the treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defects.

In another four patients with corneal epithelial defects, the conjunctival epithelium was actively prevented from crossing the limbus by mechanically scraping it off.

The histopathology of the lower bowel was characterized by moderate to severe inflammation, mild edema, epithelial defects, mild to severe hyperplasia, dysplasia and carcinoma.

Corneas with epithelial defects reepithelialized by corneal or limbal epithelium were nonvascularized; the corneal permeability was initially increased and returned to normal 3 days later.

Postoperative transient corneal epithelial defects occurred in 71.4% and 78.4% of the eyes in the late- and early-treatment groups, respectively, an insignificant difference.