Surgical treatment in nystagmus

Eye

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-15

  Atilla, Huban ^a,b   Erkam, Necile ^a   Işikçelik, Yusuf ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Congenital motor nystagmus; Sensory nystagmus; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALBINISM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOPIA; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032994223     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.3     Document Type: Article

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