Clinical evaluation of rebound tonometer

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-209

  Davies, Leon N ^a   Bartlett, Hannah ^a   Mallen, Edward A H ^b   Wolffsohn, James S ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goldmann tonometry; Intraocular pressure; Rebound tonometry; Reliability; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TONOMETER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 33645464184     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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