Differences in optic disc topography between black and white normal subjects

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-39

  Girkin, Christopher A ^a,c   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^a,b   Xie, Aiyuan ^a   Deleon Ortega, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETINA;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK;

EID: 11344249299     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.07.029     Document Type: Article

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