Accommodation, accommodative convergence, and response AC/A ratios before and at the onset of myopia in children

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 273-278

  Gwiazda, Jane ^a   Thorn, Frank ^a   Held, Richard ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Children; Myopia; Refractive error; Visual development

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTOMETERS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

AC/A RATIOS; ACCOMMODATIVE CONVERGENCE; MYOPIA; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

VISION;

ACCOMMODATION; ACCOMMODATION CONVERGENCE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOPIA; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; STIMULUS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINOSCOPY; STRABISMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17444367364     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OPX.0000159363.07082.7D     Document Type: Article

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