Five-Year Incidence of Bilateral Cause-Specific Visual Impairment in the Melbourne Visual Impairment Project

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5075-5081

  Dimitrov, Peter N ^a   Mukesh, Bickol N ^a,b   McCarty, Catherine A ^a,c   Taylor, Hugh R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VICTORIA; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 0345283019     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0457     Document Type: Article

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