Relationship between central corneal thickness and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in ocular hypertensive patients

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 251-256

  Henderson, Polly A ^a   Medeiros, Felipe A ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA THICKNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTIC DISK CUP; PARAMETER; POLARIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RISK FACTOR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 13444311829     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.09.016     Document Type: Article

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