Central corneal thickness of Caucasians, Chinese, Hispanics, Filipinos, African Americans, and Japanese in a glaucoma clinic

Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2211-2219

  Aghaian, Elsa ^a   Choe, Joyce E ^a   Lin, Shan ^a,b   Stamper, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b San Francisco CA 94143 0730 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FILIPINO; GLAUCOMA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL TENSION GLAUCOMA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION GLAUCOMA; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; SEX DIFFERENCE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 9644302484     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.06.013     Document Type: Article

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