Changes in retinal nerve fiber layer thickness after acute primary angle closure

Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1475-1479

  Aung, Tin ^a,b   Husain, Rahat ^a,c   Gazzard, Gus ^a,c   Chan, Yiong Huak ^d   Devereux, Joseph G ^a,c   Hoh, Sek Tien ^a   Seah, Steve K L ^a  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Clin Trials and Epidemiol Res U   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EVALUATION; EYE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ISCHEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MODULATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBSERVATION; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RISK FACTOR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SYMPTOM; THICKNESS; BIREFRINGENCE; IRIDECTOMY; LASER; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BIREFRINGENCE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDECTOMY; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 3442877241     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2003.12.055     Document Type: Article

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