Corneal descriptive indices in the fellow eye of unilateral keratoconus

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-68

  Lema, Isabel ^a   Romero, Paloma ^b   Mato, Jose L ^b   Feijóo, Elío Díez ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CONXO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corneal topography; Subclinical keratoconus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RELATIVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLIT LAMP;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650764279     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e318198be6e     Document Type: Article

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