Infantile-onset nystagmus

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 276-285

  Maybodi, Mitra ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial divergence surgery; Fusional maldevelopment nystagmus syndrome (latent manifest latent nystagmus); Horizontal rectus tenotomy; Infantile nystagmus syndrome (congenital nystagmus); Spasmus nutans syndrome

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLERA; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISION;

AGE OF ONSET; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFANT; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 0141504205     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-200310000-00008     Document Type: Review

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