Aqueous humor outflow facility by tonography does not change with body position

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1453-1457

  Selvadurai, Deepan ^a   Hodge, David ^a   Sit, Arthur J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; STEADY STATE; SUPINE POSITION; TONOGRAPHY; TONOMETRY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BODY POSTURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAM; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AQUEOUS HUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAMS; POSTURE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 77949906736     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4058     Document Type: Article

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