The ocular hypotensive effect of late pregnancy is higher in multigravidae than in primigravidae

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 64-67

  Qureshi, Imran Ahmad ^a,b   Xi, Xiao Rong ^c   Yaqob, Tahir ^a  

^a RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b Morga Post Office   (Pakistan)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TONOMETER;

EID: 0034075746     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050011     Document Type: Article

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