Discriminative power of reading tests to differentiate visual impairment caused by cataract and age-related macular degeneration

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2111-2119

  Stifter, Eva ^a   Weghaupt, Herbert ^a   Benesch, Thomas ^a   Thaler, Arnulf ^a   Radner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; CATARACT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 30444431589     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.03.080     Document Type: Article

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