Evaluation of Schirmer tests by two types of tear clearance tests

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 438, Issue , 1998, Pages 869-873

  Ono, Masafumi ^a,b   Yagi, Yukiko ^a   Goto, Eiki ^a   Yang, Hao Yung ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIRMER TEST;

EID: 0031798744     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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