Varying effects of corneal thickness on intraocular pressure measurements with different tonometers

Eye

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 327-332

  Ko, Y C ^a,b   Liu, C J I ^a,b,c   Hsu, W M ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corneal thickness; Intraocular pressure measurement; Tonometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TONOMETER;

EID: 16844376246     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6701458     Document Type: Article

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