Effect of central corneal thickness on Goldmann applanation tonometry measures - A different result with different pachymeters

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1603-1610

  Doughty, Michael J ^a   Jonuscheit, Sven ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Goldmann tonometry; Normal corneas; Orbscan; Ultrasound pachymetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PACHYMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONOMETRY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34848825022     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0601-x     Document Type: Article

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