Measurement of intraocular pressure with a modern noncontact tonometer

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-87

  Koçak, Inci ^a   Orgül, Selim ^a,b   Saruhan, Ayhan ^a   Haefliger, Ivan ^a   Hendrickson, Phillip ^a   Flammer, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure; Noncontact tonometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CHILD; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING TEST; TONOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 0031930857     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000027284     Document Type: Article

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