Demographics of patients older than 50 years with keratoconus

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 309-311

  Yildiz, Elvin H ^a   Diehl, Guilherme F ^a   Cohen, Elisabeth J ^a   Hammersmith, Kristin M ^a   Laibson, Peter R ^a   Rapuano, Christopher J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTACT LENS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYOPIA; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; SPECTACLES; TOPOGRAPHY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 74249094896     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e3181be5784     Document Type: Article

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