Lower corneal hysteresis in glaucoma patients with acquired pit of the optic nerve (APON)

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 735-738

  Bochmann, Frank ^a,b   Ang, Ghee S ^a   Azuara Blanco, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acquired pit of optic nerve (APON); Corneal hysteresis; Glaucoma; Ocular response analyzer

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 42049095265     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0756-5     Document Type: Article

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