Current Management and Treatment of Dry Eye Disease
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Etiology, prevalence, and treatment of dry eye disease
PURPOSE This review article examines the prevalence, etiology, and current therapies of dry eye disease, with special focus on postmenopausal women. METHOD A systematic literature search utilizing MEDLINE was conducted to identify peer-reviewed articles related to dry eye published prior to September 2008. The terms "dry eye" and "women" were searched in combination with one or more of the fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1300-0659,2147-2661
DOI: 10.4274/tjo.69320