Visual development in preterm and full-term infants: A prospective masked study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 346-353

  Weinacht, Silvia ^a   Kind, Christian ^b   Mönting, Jürgen Schulte ^c   Gottlob, Irene ^a,d  

^a Kantonsspital Street Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Division of Neonatology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRATING; HUMAN; NEWBORN; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGING; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EYE MOVEMENTS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MOTOR SKILLS; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032919713     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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