Visual complaints from healthy children

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-121

  Wright Jr , John D ^a   Boger III, William P ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Convergence; Entoptic phenomena; Floaters; Macropsia; Micropsia; Physiologic diplopia; Retinal adaptation; Scheerer's phenomenon; Troxler's phenomenon

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; AFTERIMAGE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; DARK ADAPTATION; DIPLOPIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNKINESIS; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0033199703     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(99)00078-8     Document Type: Article

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