Corneal thickness measurements: Scanning-slit corneal topography and noncontact specular microscopy versus ultrasonic pachymetry

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1313-1318

  Suzuki, Shigenobu ^b   Oshika, Tetsuro ^a   Oki, Kotaro ^b   Sakabe, Isao ^b   Iwase, Aiko ^b   Amano, Shiro ^b   Araie, Makoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KERATOMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PACHYMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0042201932     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0886-3350(03)00123-8     Document Type: Article

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