Novel pressure-to-cornea index in glaucoma

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1364-1368

  Iliev, Milko E ^a   Meyenberg, Alexander ^a   Buerki, Ernst ^b   Shafranov, George ^c   Shields, M Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Ophthalmologists Association Thun   (Switzerland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONOMETRY;

AGED; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34848892746     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.120980     Document Type: Article

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