Subjective and objective optic nerve assessment in African Americans and whites

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2272-2278

  Girkin, Christopher A ^a   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^a,b   Long, Cherie ^a   DeLeon Ortega, Julio ^a   Graf, Curtis M ^b   Everett, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK TOPOGRAPHY; OPTIC NERVE; PARAMETER; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 3142581341     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0996     Document Type: Article

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