Causes of blindness at the "Wiyata Guna" school for the blind, Indonesia

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1065-1068

  Sitorus, Rita ^a,b   Preising, M ^b   Lorenz, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHTHALMIA; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA STAPHYLOMA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; KERATITIS; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; OPTIC NERVE; PHTHISIS BULBI; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; SCAR; SCHOOL CHILD; UVEA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MALE; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0042859830     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.9.1065     Document Type: Review

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