The evaluation of tonometry and self-tonometry with Ocuton tonometers

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Kóthy, Péter ^a   Nagymihály, Attila ^a   Holló, Gábor ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Applanation tonometers; Glaucoma; Ocuton A; Ocuton S

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVALUATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT; SELF EXAMINATION; TONOMETER; TONOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EVALUATION STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 0037277604     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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