Confirmation of the presence of uveal effusion in asian eyes with primary angle closure glaucoma: An ultrasound biomicroscopy study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1647-1651

  Kumar, Rajesh S ^a   Quek, Desmond ^a   Lee, Kelvin Y ^a   Oen, Francis T ^a   Sakai, Hiroshi ^c   Koh, Victor T ^b   MohanRam, Lakshmana S ^a   Baskaran, Mani ^a,d   Wong, Tina T ^a   Aung, Tin ^a,b,e  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d SANKARA NETHRALAYA   (India)

^e SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOMICROSCOPY; CASE STUDY; CHOROID; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRIDOTOMY; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCLERA; UVEA DISEASE; UVEAL EFFUSION; ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; EXUDATE; IRIDECTOMY; LASER COAGULATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGAPORE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHOROID; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; IRIDECTOMY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGAPORE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; UVEAL DISEASES;

EID: 58149268261     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.514     Document Type: Article

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