Open AccessEvaluation of impression smear in the diagnosis of fungal keratitis
Author(s) -
Arun Kumar Jain,
Reema Bansal,
Vinaya Felcida,
Arvind Rajwanshi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/0301-4738.29492
Subject(s) - medicine , predictive value , keratitis , positive predicative value , false positive rate , dermatology , ophthalmology , dentistry , statistics , mathematics
To evaluate and compare impression smear with the conventional mechanical corneal scraping by potassium hydroxide (KOH) method in the diagnosis of fungal keratitis.