Relationship between visual field loss and contrast threshold elevation in glaucoma

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tochel, C M ^a   Morton, J S ^a   Jay, J L ^b   Morrison, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VISION; PREDICTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 26444523390     PISSN: 14712415     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-5-22     Document Type: Article

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