Corneal thickness indices discriminate between keratoconus and contact lens-induced corneal thinning

Ophthalmology

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2336-2341

  Pflugfelder, Stephen C ^a   Liu, Zuguo ^b,c   Feuer, William ^c   Verm, Alan ^c  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA THINNING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOPOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036896206     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01276-9     Document Type: Article

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