Assessment of a race-specific normative HRT-III database to differentiate glaucomatous from normal eyes

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 548-551

  Zelefsky, Joseph R ^a,b   Harizman, Noga ^c   Mora, Ricardo ^c   Ilitchev, Elena ^c   Tello, Celso ^c,d   Ritch, Robert ^c,d   Liebmann, Jeffrey M ^a,b,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy; Race specific database

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EYE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 33751025278     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ijg.0000212289.00917.a8     Document Type: Article

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