Relationship of central corneal thickness with optic disc parameters: The Singapore Malay eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1320-1324

  Wu, Ren Yi ^a   Zheng, Ying Feng ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b   Cheung, Carol Yim Lui ^a   Loon, Seng Chee ^c   Chauhan, Balwantray C ^d   Aung, Tin ^a,b  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK CUP; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; SINGAPORE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955929948     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6038     Document Type: Article

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