Temporal contrast sensitivity using full-field flicker test (Erlangen flicker test) in patients after penetrating keratoplasty

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 443-447

  Nguyen, Nhung X ^a   Horn, Folker K ^a   Seitz, Berthold ^a   Cursiefen, Claus ^a   Martus, Peter ^b   Langenbucher, Achim ^a   Küchle, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; LUMINANCE; MALE; OPTOMETRY; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISION TESTS;

EID: 0036946521     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0456-0     Document Type: Article

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