Correlation between refractive error, corneal power, and thickness in a large population with a wide range of ametropia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1235-1242

  AlMahmoud, Tahra ^a   Priest, David ^b   Munger, Rejean ^b   Bruce Jackson, W ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMETROPIA; ANTERIOR SEGMENT TOMOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL POWER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLOPLEGIC SPHERICAL EQUIVALENT; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOMETRY; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTOMETER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955940089     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5449     Document Type: Article

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