Prevalence and Causes of Visual Field Loss as Determined by Frequency Doubling Perimetry in Urban and Rural Adult Chinese

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Yaxing ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHINA; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DOUBLING PERIMETRY; FUNCTION TEST; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 33744824398     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.01.023     Document Type: Article

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