Validity of the keratometric index: Evaluation by the Pentacam rotating Scheimpflug camera

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-145

  Ho, Jau Der ^a   Tsai, Ching Yao ^a   Tsai, Ray Jui Fang ^a   Kuo, Li Lin ^a   Tsai, I Lun ^a   Liou, Shiow Wen ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA THICKNESS; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37449004390     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.09.033     Document Type: Article

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