Relationship between asymmetric central corneal thickness and glaucomatous visual field loss within the same patient

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 516-519

  Sullivan Mee, Michael ^a   Gentry, James Matthew ^a   Qualls, Clifford ^a,b  

^a VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Cornea; Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure; Tonometry

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH RISKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISION;

CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CORNEA; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; TONOMETRY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADVANCED GLAUCOMA INTERVENTION STUDY SCORE; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CORNEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL TENSION GLAUCOMA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AGED; CORNEA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; PERIMETRY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33746637170     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.opx.0000218433.49803.e7     Document Type: Article

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