Glaucoma: An area of darkness

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1764-1774

  Hitchings, R A ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Future; Glaucoma concepts; Past; Present

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; BINOCULAR VISION; CATARACT; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDECTOMY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 70349200938     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.260     Document Type: Review

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