Efficiency of a video-autorefractometer used as a screening device for amblyogenic factors

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 710-716

  Schimitzek, Thilo ^a   Haase, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Eye Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTOMETER; RELIABILITY; RETINOSCOPY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0036952222     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0524-5     Document Type: Article

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