High axial length/corneal radius ratio as a risk factor in the development of myopia

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 689-696

  Grosvenor, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial length; Axial length corneal radius ratio; Corneal radius; Emmetropization; Myopia

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CORNEA CURVATURE; EMMETROPIZATION; EYE DIMENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CORNEA; ENGLAND; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0023747545     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-198809000-00001     Document Type: Article

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