The ageing eye - Threats to vision and their treatments

CME Journal Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 58-61

  Welch, Sarah ^a   Eckstein, Michael ^a  

^a SUSSEX EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMATOPROST; EYE DROPS; LATANOPROST; TRAVOPROST;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DRY EYE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE EXAMINATION; EYELASH; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLAUCOMA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IRIS DISEASE; LENS IMPLANTATION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRESBYOPIA; REFRACTION ERROR; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SPECTACLES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; YAG LASER;

EID: 66149087754     PISSN: 14751453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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