AC/A ratios in myopic and emmetropic Hong Kong children and the effect of timolol

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 323-330

  Chen, Jennifer C ^a   Schmid, Katrina L ^a   Brown, Brian ^a   Edwards, Marion H ^b   Yu, Bibianna S Y ^b   Lew, John K F ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Ciliary muscle; Convergence; Myopia; Sympathetic system

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TIMOLOL;

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; DRUG EFFECT; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MYOPIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTACLES;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESOTROPIA; EXOTROPIA; EYEGLASSES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MYOPIA; TIMOLOL;

EID: 1542599111     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2003.tb03128.x     Document Type: Article

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