Central corneal thickness and thickness of the lamina cribrosa in human eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1275-1279

  Jonas, Jost B ^a,c   Holbach, Leonard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GLAUCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MORPHOMETRICS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; STAGING; TISSUE SECTION; CORNEA; ENUCLEATION; EYE; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; EYE; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; SCLERA;

EID: 18244404062     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0851     Document Type: Article

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