Video-assessment of tear meniscus height in elderly Caucasians and its relationship to the exposed ocular surface

Current Eye Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 420-426

  Doughty, Michael J ^a   Laiquzzaman, Mohammad ^a   Button, Norman F ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exposed ocular surface; Human; Lacrimal lake; Palpebral aperture; Tear film

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; EYE DISEASE; EYELID; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; LACRIMAL FLUID; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME; VIDEORECORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; TEARS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0035726680     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.22.6.420.5487     Document Type: Article

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