The height and radius of the tear meniscus and methods for examining these parameters

Cornea

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 497-500

  Oguz, Halit ^a   Yokoi, Norihiko ^a   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meniscometry; Radius of curvature; Tear meniscus; Tear meniscus height

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID LEVEL; LACRIMATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEARS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033926359     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200007000-00019     Document Type: Article

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