Impact of ethnicity on the correlation of retinal parameters with axial length

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4977-4982

  Tariq, Yasser M ^a   Samarawickrama, Chameen ^a   Pai, Amy ^a   Burlutsky, George ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; MACULAR THICKNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CYTOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE; HISTOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77958141177     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5226     Document Type: Article

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