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Does the World Health Organization criterion adequately define glaucoma blindness?

PURPOSE: Blindness in glaucoma is difficult to assess with merely the use of the current World Health Organization (WHO) definition (a visual field restricted to 10° in a radius around central fixation), as this criterion does not cover other types of visual field loss that are encountered in clinic...

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Autores principales: Mokhles, P, Schouten, JSAG, Beckers, HJM, Webers, CAB
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5338935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280297
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S129605