Clinical significance of central corneal thickness in the management of glaucoma

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1270-1275

  Shih, Carolyn Y ^a   Zivin, Joshua S Graff ^b   Trokel, Stephen L ^a   Tsai, James C ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 4444279897     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.9.1270     Document Type: Article

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