Role of cerebrospinal fluid in glaucoma: Pressure and beyond

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-34

  Yang, Yin ^a   Yu, Man ^a   Zhu, Jing ^a   Chen, Xiaoming ^a   Liu, Xuyang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CISTERNOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK CUP; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AXONS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OPTIC DISK; RISK FACTORS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70450253305     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.024     Document Type: Article

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