“…However, these results have been limited to the postnatal period. There have been few reports on the development of corneal endothelium during the prenatal period (Wu È lle and Lerche, 1969;Lee, 1975;Murphy et al, 1984;Ko et al, 2000). In addition, only two quantitative studies (Murphy et al, 1984) have reported on the corneal endothelial density in the human fetus.…”