Pigmented striae of the anterior lens capsule and age-associated pigment dispersion of variable degree in a group of older African-Americans: An age, race, and gender matched study

International Ophthalmology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 313-322

  Roberts, Daniel K ^a   Winters, Janis Ecklund ^a   Castells, David D ^a   Clark, Cathy A ^a   Teitelbaum, Bruce A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystalline lens; Krukenberg's spindles; Lens zonules; Pigment dispersion; Pigmented lens striae; Refractive error; Retroiridal pigment lines

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENDER; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; LENS CAPSULE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTED LENS STRIAE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; RANDOMIZATION; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; HYPERTENSION; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0347089271     PISSN: 01655701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:INTE.0000006762.32723.17     Document Type: Article

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