Clinical significance of tear menisci in dry eye

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 183-187

  Li, Jianhua ^a,c   Shen, Meixiao ^a   Wang, Jianhua ^b   Ma, Huixiang ^a   Tao, Aizhu ^a   Xu, Suzhong ^a   Lu, Fan ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Ophthalmology   (China)

Author keywords

Tear menisci Dry eye Real time OCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL GLAND; LACRIMATION; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAR MENISCI;

ADULT; AGED; BLINKING; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEARS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860783247     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: 1542233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e318252ce0c     Document Type: Article

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