Management of patients with narrow angles and acute angle-closure glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 255-266

  Fricke, Timothy R ^a,b   Mantzioros, Nick ^b   Vingrys, Algis J ^b  

^a Victorian College of Optometry   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angle closure glaucoma; Anterior chamber; Gonioscopy; Mydriasis; Pupillary dilatation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856209647     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.1998.tb06745.x     Document Type: Article

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