The sensitive period for anisometropic amblyopia

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 783-790

  Lea, S J Hardman ^a   Loades, J ^a   Rubinstein, M P ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN;

AGING; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0024844253     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1989.122     Document Type: Article

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