Central corneal thickness and intraocular pressure relationship in eyes with and without previous LASIK: Comparison of Goldmann applanation tonometer with pneumatonometer

European Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Bayraktar, Şükrú ^a,b,c   Bayraktar, Z ^a  

^a Istanbul Educational Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Beyoglu Eye Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Goldmann applanation tonometer; Intraocular pressure; LASIK; Optical coherence tomography; Pneumatonometer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMILEUSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; TONOMETER; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; MYOPIA; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 15544365837     PISSN: 11206721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/112067210501500113     Document Type: Article

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