FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention can be used to stage bullous keratopathy (BK) according to confocal microscopy (CM) of cornea. That involves analysing the corneal structure, evaluating the epithelial cell shape, size and density, the state of Bowman's and Descemet's membranes, keratocytes, nerve fibres and extracellular matrix of stroma, subepithelial nerve plexus, and endothelium. Three BK stages are diagnosed according to the CM findings.
EFFECT: technique enables increasing and simplifying the diagnostic accuracy and enables finding the minimal initial cellular changes.
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