Clinical evaluation of keratometry and computerised videokeratography: Intraobserver and interobserver variability on normal and astigmatic corneas

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 637-642

  Karabatsas, Constantinos H ^a   Cook, Stuart D ^a   Papaefthymiou, John ^a   Turner, Phil ^a   Sparrow, John M ^a  

^a BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIDEOKERATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031778647     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.82.6.637     Document Type: Article

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