Successful treatment of anisometropic amblyopia with spectacles alone

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-43

  Steele, Anna L ^a   Bradfield, Yasmin S ^a,c   Kushner, Burton J ^a   France, Thomas D ^a   Struck, Michael C ^a   Gangnon, Ronald E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644770009     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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