Scanning laser polarimetry in myopic and hyperopic subjects

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 489-494

  Kremmer, Stephan ^a   Zadow, Thomas ^a   Steuhl, Klaus Peter ^a   Selbach, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; NERVE FIBER; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIMETRY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SLIT LAMP; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 3543016119     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0859-1     Document Type: Article

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