Central corneal thickness as a risk factor for glaucoma

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1205-1207

  Mehdizadeh, Alireza ^a   Hoseinzadeh, Amin ^b   Fazelzadeh, Afsoon ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c FASA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; RETINA; RISK FACTORS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 35448969373     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.12.066     Document Type: Article

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