The relationship between central corneal thickness and optic disc size in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma in a hospital-based population

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 556-559

  Terai, Naim ^a   Spoerl, Eberhard ^a   Pillunat, Lutz E ^a   Kuhlisch, Eberhard ^b   Schmidt, Eckart ^a   Boehm, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

corneal thickness; glaucoma; HRT; optic disc size

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955936593     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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