Correlation Between Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness and Central Corneal Thickness in Patients With Ocular Hypertension: An Optical Coherence Tomography Study

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Kaushik, Sushmita ^a   Gyatsho, Jamyang ^a   Jain, Rajeev ^a   Pandav, Surinder Singh ^a   Gupta, Amod ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK CUP; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33646191940     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.12.026     Document Type: Article

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