Evidence-based overview of ophthalmic disorders in deaf children: A literature update

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Nikolopoulos, T P ^a,d   Lioumi, D ^b   Stamataki, S ^a   O'Donoghue, G M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Nikea General Hospital Athens   (Greece)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blind child; Deaf; Deaf and blind; Deafness; Disorder; Evidence; Hearing loss; Ophthalmic; Screening; Syndrome; Usher; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; AICARDI SYNDROME; ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ALBINISM; ALPORT SYNDROME; ALSTROM SYNDROME; AMBLYOPIA; ANGIOOSTEOHYPERTROPHY SYNDROME; ASTIGMATISM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CAT CRY SYNDROME; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; COGAN SYNDROME; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOBOMA; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CRIGLER NAJJAR SYNDROME; CROUZON SYNDROME; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DATA BASE; DE LANGE SYNDROME; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DISORDERS OF PEROXISOMAL FUNCTIONS; EAR MALFORMATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; ETHNIC GROUP; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE DISEASE; EYE MOVEMENT; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FLYNN AIRD; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GOLDENHAR SYNDROME; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTELORISM; IMPLANTATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; KNIEST DYSPLASIA; LEARNING DISORDER; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; LEIGH DISEASE; LITERATURE; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; MARFAN SYNDROME; MAROTEAUX LAMY SYNDROME; MARSHALL SYNDROME; MEDLINE; MENINGITIS; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOEBIUS SYNDROME; MOHR TRANEBJAERG; MORQUIO SYNDROME; MOSAICISM; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NORRIE DISEASE; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PALLISTER KILLIAN SYNDROME; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REFSUM DISEASE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINOPATHY; RETINOSCOPY; REVIEW; RHESUS INCOMPATIBILITY; RUBELLA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SLIT LAMP; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SPONDYLOEPIPHYSEAL DYSPLASIA; STICKLER SYNDROME; STRABISMUS; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SYNDROME CHARGE; SYPHILIS; TINNITUS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; USHER SYNDROME; VISION TEST; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME; WILDERVANCK; WOLF HIRSCHHORN SYNDROME; WOLFRAM SYNDROME; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ZELLWEGER SYNDROME;

EID: 32444438120     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000185150.69704.18     Document Type: Review

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