The full-field flicker test in glaucomas: Influence of intraocular pressure and pattern of visual field losses

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 621-628

  Horn, Folkert K ^a   Velten, Isabel M ^a   Jünemann, Anselm ^a   Korth, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SCOTOMA; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032772760     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050288     Document Type: Article

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