Diagnostic Accuracy of Scanning Laser Polarimetry with Enhanced versus Variable Corneal Compensation

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1988-1993

  Mai, T A ^a   Reus, N J ^a   Lemij, H G ^a  

^a ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

AREAS UNDER THE RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL BIREFRINGENCE PATTERN; BIREFRINGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENHANCED CORNEAL COMPENSATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER INDICATOR; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PARAMETER; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARIABLE CORNEAL COMPENSATION;

AGED; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35548975227     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.01.022     Document Type: Article

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