Prevalence of congenital optic disc pits in adult Chinese: The Beijing Eye Study

European Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 863-864

  Wang, Y ^a   Xu, L ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^b,c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low vision; Optic disc; Optic nerve head; Optic nerve head pit; Visual impairment; Visual loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; OPTIC NERVE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846572428     PISSN: 11206721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/112067210601600613     Document Type: Article

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