Racial differences in the association between optic disc topography and early glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3382-3387

  Girkin, Christopher A ^a   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^a,b   McNeal, Sandre F ^a   DeLeon Ortega, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK CUP; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALABAMA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0041842725     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0792     Document Type: Article

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