Increased lens vault as a risk factor for angle closure: Confirmation in a Japanese population

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1863-1868

  Ozaki, Mineo ^a   Nongpiur, Monisha E ^b   Aung, Tin ^b,c,f   He, Mingguang ^d   Mizoguchi, Takanori ^e  

^a Ozaki Eye Hospital   (Japan)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Mizoguchi Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^f SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Angle closure glaucoma; Anterior segment optical coherence tomography; Lens vault

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LENS POSITION; LENS SIZE; LENS VAULT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCLERA; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPAN; LENS DISEASES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 84871267318     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-2011-y     Document Type: Article

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