Contact lens electroretinography in preterm infants from 32 weeks after conception: A development in current methodology

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Mactier, Helen ^a   Turner, Thomas L ^a   Hamilton, Ruth ^a   Bradnam, Michael S ^a   Dudgeon, John ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroretinography; Preterm; Retinopathy of prematurity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0034023357     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.82.3.f233     Document Type: Article

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