Prevalence of normal-tension glaucoma and primary open-angle glaucoma in patients with collagen diseases

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 539-542

  Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Maeda, Manabu ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a   Sugiyama, Kazuhisa ^a   Taniguchi, Toru ^a   Kitazawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Oyama, Zuiei ^a   Ichihashi, Naoki ^a   Takagi, Hajime ^a   Kitajima, Yasuo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen disease; Normal tension glaucoma; Prevalence; Primary open angle glaucoma; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; JAPAN; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLIT LAMP; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLAGEN DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032738127     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-5155(99)00142-2     Document Type: Article

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