Epidemiology of primary glaucoma: prevalence, incidence, and blinding effects

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-14

  Cedrone, Claudio ^a   Mancino, Raffaele ^a   Cerulli, Angelica ^a   Cesareo, Massimo ^a   Nucci, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

blindness; glaucoma; incidence; prevalence

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE; ASIA; BLINDNESS; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

BLINDNESS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 53049103428     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)01101-1     Document Type: Review

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