The water-drinking test: The elegance of simplicity

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-303

  Danesh Meyer, Helen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; NORADRENALIN;

AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; BLOOD OSMOLARITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; EPISCLERA VENOUS PRESSURE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; PLASMA OSMOLARITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; TRABECULECTOMY; VENOUS PRESSURE; VISUAL FIELD; WATER LOADING;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRINKING; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47649085760     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01782.x     Document Type: Editorial

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