Dry eye disease: The scale of the problem

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages

  Brewitt, Horst ^a,b   Sistani, Firouzeh ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dry eye disease; Epidemiology; Keratoconjunctivitis sicca; Prevalence; Sj gren's syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRY EYE; GERMANY; HUMAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN LARSSON SYNDROME; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOM;

DRY EYE SYNDROMES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0035164394     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(00)00202-2     Document Type: Article

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