Morphological and functional differences between normal-tension and high-tension glaucoma

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Häntzschel, Janek ^a   Terai, Naim ^a   Sorgenfrei, Friederike ^a   Haustein, Michael ^a   Pillunat, Karin ^a   Pillunat, Lutz E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

high tension glaucoma; HRT; normal tension glaucoma; optic nerve head; visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HIGH TENSION GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TRABECULOPLASTY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HIGH-TENSION GLAUCOMA; HRT; NORMAL-TENSION GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE HEAD; VISUAL FIELD;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; PROGNOSIS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84880314398     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aos.12061     Document Type: Article

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