Variable corneal compensation improves discrimination between normal and glaucomatous eyes with the scanning laser polarimeter

Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-264

  Tannenbaum, Dana P ^a   Hoffman, Douglas ^a   Lemij, Hans G ^b   Garway Heath, David F ^c   Greenfield, David S ^d   Caprioli, Joseph ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POLARIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARIABLE CORNEAL COMPENSATOR; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0842310446     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2003.05.015     Document Type: Article

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