Comparison of Pentacam Scheimpflug camera with ultrasound pachymetry and noncontact specular microscopy in measuring central corneal thickness

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-94

  Fujioka, Miyuki ^a   Nakamura, Makoto ^a   Tatsumi, Yasuko ^a   Kusuhara, Azusa ^a   Maeda, Hidetaka ^a   Negi, Akira ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Interchangeability; Noncontact specular microscopy; Scheimpflug camera; Ultrasound pachymetry

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CENTRAL CORNEA THICKNESS; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; NONCONTACT PECULAR MICROSCOPY; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT T TEST; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847257295     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680601115010     Document Type: Article

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