Central corneal thickness in low-tension glaucoma

Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 319-324

  Emara, Barry Y ^a   Tingey, David P ^a   Probst, Louis E ^a,b   Motolko, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Applanation tonometry; Corneal thickness; Low tension glaucoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL FIELD;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CORNEA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033202570     PISSN: 00084182     EISSN: 17153360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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