Vergence facility: Establishing clinical utility

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 731-742

  Gall, Ronald ^a,c   Wick, Bruce ^b   Bedell, Harold ^b  

^a ICLS Plastic Surgery   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthenopia; Binocular vision; Symptoms; Vergence facility

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TESTING;

ASTHENOPIA; CLINICAL TESTS; CLINICAL UTILITY; VERGENCE FACILITY;

BINOCULAR VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 0032191536     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199810000-00018     Document Type: Article

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