When is glaucoma really glaucoma?: Commentary

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 376-385

  San Laureano, Joseph ^a  

^a EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

GDx; Glaucoma; HRT; Nerve fibre layer defects; Notching; OCT; Optic nerve; Peripapillary atrophy; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; PERIMETRY; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34547877581     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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