Relationship between central corneal thickness, refractive error, corneal curvature, anterior chamber depth and axial length

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 133-137

  Chen, Mei Ju ^a,b   Liu, Yin Tzu ^a   Tsai, Chia Chen ^b,c   Chen, Yen Cheng ^b   Chou, Ching Kuang ^a,b   Lee, Shu Mei ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHENG HSIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior chamber depth; Axial length; Central corneal thickness; Corneal curvature; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PATIENT SELECTION; REFRACTION ERROR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 65249146097     PISSN: 17264901     EISSN: 17287731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1726-4901(09)70038-3     Document Type: Article

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