Measuring accurate IOPs: Does correction factor help or hurt?

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 611-616

  Gunvant, Pinakin ^a   Newcomb, Robert D ^b   Kirstein, Elliot M ^c   Malinovsky, Victor E ^d   Madonna, Richard J ^e   Meetz, Richard E ^d  

^a SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Glaucoma and Diabetes Eye Institute   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Dynamic contour tonometer; Goldmann applanation tonometer; Intraocular pressure; Tonometric correction factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956130873     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s11105     Document Type: Article

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