Central corneal thickness: Will one measurement suffice?

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-228

  Wickham, Louisa ^a   Edmunds, Beth ^a   Murdoch, Ian E ^b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORNEA; DISABILITY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COHORT STUDIES; CORNEA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 13444306442     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.08.020     Document Type: Article

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