One-year multicenter, double-masked, placebo-controlled, parallel safety and efficacy study of 2% pirenzepine ophthalmic gel in children with myopia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 84-91

  Tan, Donald T H ^a,b   Lam, Dennis S ^c   Chua, Wei Han ^a   Shu Ping, Dorothy Fan ^c   Crockett, R Stephens ^d  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d DATA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIRENZEPINE; PLACEBO;

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLIC; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOPIA; OCULAR PRURITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PIRENZEPINE; SAFETY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 11344261777     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.06.038     Document Type: Article

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