Exfoliation syndrome in black South Africans

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 863-870

  Rotchford, Alan P ^a,c   Kirwan, James F ^a   Johnson, Gordon J ^a   Roux, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENDER; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NEGRO; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK; SLIT LAMP; STANDARDIZATION; TONOMETRY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIMETRY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0038010626     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.121.6.863     Document Type: Article

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