Risk of acute angle-closure glaucoma after diagnostic mydriasis in nonselected subjects: The rotterdam study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2683-2687

  Wolfs, Roger C W ^a   Grobbee, Diederik E ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   De Jong, Paulus T V M ^a,b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute angle closure glaucoma; Epidemiology; Incidence; Mydriasis

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; MIOTIC AGENT; MOXISYLYTE; MYDRIATIC AGENT; PHENYLEPHRINE; TROPICAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDOTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NEODYMIUM LASER; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SLIT LAMP;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYDRIATICS; NETHERLANDS; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PHENYLEPHRINE; PREVALENCE; PUPIL; RISK FACTORS; TROPICAMIDE;

EID: 0030812623     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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