Comparison of the Moorfields Classification Using Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy and Subjective Optic Disc Classification in Detecting Glaucoma in Blacks and Whites

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2144-2149

  Girkin, Christopher A ^a   DeLeon Ortega, Julio E ^a   Xie, Aiyuan ^a   McGwin, Gerald ^a   Arthur, Stella N ^a   Monheit, Blythe E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; STEREOPHOTOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33751509612     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.06.035     Document Type: Article

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