Angle-closure glaucoma: Impact, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 70-73

  Congdon, Nathan G ^a,b   Friedman, David S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; LATANOPROST; MANNITOL; PILOCARPINE; TIMOLOL;

ARGON LASER; BIOMICROSCOPY; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY BODY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EFFUSION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDECTOMY; IRIDOPLASTY; LASER SURGERY; LENS IMPLANT; PARACENTESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEA DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY;

BLINDNESS; CILIARY BODY; DRUG THERAPY; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UVEA;

EID: 0037902220     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-200304000-00002     Document Type: Review

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