Intraocular pressure measured at ground level and 10,000 feet

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 543-545

  Bayer, Atilla ^a   Yumuşak, Erhan ^b   Şahin, Ömer F ^b   Uysal, Yusuf ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ETIMESGUT MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Altitude; Flight; Intraocular pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SLIT LAMP; TONOMETRY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 2442641604     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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