The desperate last gasps of rigid contact lenses

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-342

  Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HARD CONTACT LENS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KERATITIS; KERATOCONUS; MYOPIA; OPTOMETRY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFT CONTACT LENS; TREATMENT INDICATION; CHILD; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA; INFANT; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTHESIS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; HUMANS; INFANT; MYOPIA; PRESCRIPTIONS, NON-DRUG; PROSTHESIS FITTING;

EID: 26944450546     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.01058.x     Document Type: Editorial

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