Central corneal thickness among Aboriginal people attending eye clinics in remote South Australia

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 728-732

  Durkin, Shane R ^a,b   Tan, Edwin W H ^a   Casson, Robert J ^a,b   Selva, Dinesh ^a,b   Newland, Henry S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Australia; Central corneal thickness

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 36048968472     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01574.x     Document Type: Article

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