Corneal viscoelasticity differences between diabetic and nondiabetic glaucomatous patients

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 341-343

  Castro, Dinorah Piacentini Engel ^a,b   Prata, Tiago Santos ^a,c   Lima, Verônica Castro ^a,c   Biteli, Luis Gustavo ^a   De Moraes, Carlos Gustavo Vasconcelos ^c   Paranhos, Augusto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

central corneal thickness; corneal hysteresis; diabetes; primary open angle glaucoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISCOELASTICITY; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELASTICITY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 77953997184     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e3181b4caa1     Document Type: Article

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