Lamina cribrosa thickness is not correlated with central corneal thickness or axial length in healthy eyes: Central corneal thickness, axial length, and lamina cribrosa thickness

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 847-854

  Lee, Eun Ji ^a,b   Kim, Tae Woo ^a,c   Weinreb, Robert N ^d   Suh, Min Hee ^e   Kim, Hyunjoong ^f  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b National Medical Center   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Axial length; Central corneal thickness; Lamina cribrosa thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LAMINA CRIBROSA THICKNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875684167     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-2145-y     Document Type: Article

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