Imaging lid-parallel conjunctival folds with OCT and comparing its grading with the slit lamp classification in dry eye patients and normal subjects

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2945-2951

  Veres, Amarilla ^a   Tapasztó, Beáta ^a   Kosina Hagyó, Krisztina ^a   Somfai, Gábor Márk ^a   Németh, János ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LID PARALLEL CONJUNCTIVAL FOLDS; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLIT LAMP; TEAR FILM BREAKUP TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EYELIDS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEARS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955957386     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5505     Document Type: Article

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