Increased Likelihood of Glaucoma at the Same Screening Intraocular Pressure in Subjects With Pseudoexfoliation: The Thessaloniki Eye Study

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Topouzis, Fotis ^a   Harris, Alon ^b   Wilson, M Roy ^c   Koskosas, Archimidis ^a   Founti, Panayiota ^a   Yu, Fei ^d   Anastasopoulos, Eleftherios ^a   Pappas, Theofanis ^a   Coleman, Anne L ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; EYE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; PSEUDOEXFOLIATIVE GLAUCOMA; SCREENING;

EID: 70349266000     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.03.024     Document Type: Article

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