Central corneal thickness in high myopia

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 539-542

  Pedersen, Lene ^a   Hjortdal, Jesper ^a   Ehlers, Niels ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Coherence reflectometry; High myopia; Optical low; Pachymeter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTION INDEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 27144439782     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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