DARKROOM OUTFLOW TEST IN UNILATERAL CLOSED-ANGLE GLAUCOMA
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Darkroom outflow test in unilateral closed-angle glaucoma.
MACKENZIE (1854) noted that where glaucoma had affected one eye it usually extended also to the other. In closed-angle glaucoma, a disease largely determined by anatomical factors, the similarity of fellow eyes in any one patient is likely to result in the bilateral, rather than unilateral incidence of the disease, and in fact there is a strong body of opinion in favour of a prophylactic periph...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.43.11.697