Tear break-up time: Clinical procedures and their effects

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 319-324

  Cho, Pauline ^a   Leung, Lawrence ^a   Lam, Ada ^a   Choi, Alex ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYELID; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEAR FILM;

ADULT; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEARS;

EID: 0032127295     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(98)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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