Association of lens vault with narrow angles among different ethnic groups

Current Eye Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 486-491

  Lee, Roland Y ^a   Huang, Guofu ^a,b   Cui, Qi N ^a   He, Mingguang ^b   Porco, Travis C ^a   Lin, Shan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior segment optical coherence tomography; Lens vault; Narrow angle; Open angle; Zhongshan Angle Assessment Program

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FILIPINO AMERICAN; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS; LENS VAULT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUPIL; REVIEW;

AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 84861064349     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2012.669006     Document Type: Review

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