Diagnostic usefulness and cutoff value of Schirmer's I test in the Japanese diagnostic criteria of dry eye

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 761-766

  Danjo, Yukitaka ^a,b  

^a OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; ROSE BENGAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIRMER TEST; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

EID: 0030732894     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02332860     Document Type: Article

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