Correlation between the orbital and intraocular portions of the optic nerve in glaucomatous and ocular hypertensive eyes

Eye

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 707-713

  Beatty, S ^a   Good, P A ^a   McLaughlin, J ^a   O'Neill, E C ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Optic nerve; Retinal nerve fibre layer; Retrobulbar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031678714     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1998.173     Document Type: Article

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