The prevalence of glaucoma in the Melbourne Visual Impairment Project

Ophthalmology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 733-739

  Wensor, Matthew D ^a   McCarty, Cathy A ^a   Stanislavsky, Yury L ^a   Livingston, Patricia M ^a   Taylor, Hugh R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0031916540     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(98)94031-3     Document Type: Article

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