Long ciliary processes with no ciliary sulcus and appositional angle closure assessed by ultrasound biomicroscopy

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 371-379

  Sakata, Lisandro Massanori ^a,b   Sakata, Kenji ^b   Susanna Jr , Remo ^a   Sakata, Viviane Mayumi ^b   Hatanaka, Marcelo ^a   Trancoso, Luisa ^a   Ortega, Julio DeLeon ^c   Malta, Roberto Freire Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle closure glaucoma; Occludable angle; Plateau iris syndrome; Ultrasound biomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BRAZIL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CILIARY BODY; CILIARY SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDOTOMY; IRIS DISEASE; LASER; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LONG CILIARY PROCESS; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONPUPIL BLOCK MECHANISM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCLERA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CILIARY BODY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; IRIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33748920204     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ijg.0000212251.72207.19     Document Type: Article

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