Central corneal thickness and intraocular pressure measures in human corneas with endothelial guttata: An observational quality control study

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 425-432

  Doughty, Michael J ^a   Jonuscheit, Sven ^a   Button, Norman F ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corneal endothelium; Corneal thickness; Guttata; Intraocular pressure; Pachymetry; Specular microscopy; Tonometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REFRACTION ERROR; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 80052037957     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2011.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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