Evidence for a relative thinning of the peripheral cornea with age in white european subjects

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4121-4128

  Jonuscheit, Sven ^a   Doughty, Michael J ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; EUROPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PACHYMETRY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; CAUCASIAN; CORNEA; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349251357     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3298     Document Type: Article

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