Clinical comparison of contour and applanation tonometry and their relationship to pachymetry

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1532-1537

  Kniestedt, Christoph ^a,b,c   Lin, Shan ^a   Choe, Joyce ^a   Bostrom, Alan ^a   Nee, Michelle ^a   Stamper, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL WINTERTHUR   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TONOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMETRY; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 27744519845     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.11.1532     Document Type: Article

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