The characteristics of glaucoma in japanese americans

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-171

  Pekmezci, Melike ^a   Vo, Baotran ^b   Lim, Annie K ^b   Hirabayashi, Dean R ^a   Tanaka, George H ^c   Weinreb, Robert N ^d   Lin, Shan C ^a  

^a Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER ANGLE; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 60549116552     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.593     Document Type: Article

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