Childhood blindness at a school for the blind in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-5

  Kotb, Amgad A ^a   Hammouda, Ehab F ^a   Tabbara, Khalid F ^a,b  

^a The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Childhood blindness; Congenital glaucoma; Consanguinity; Genetically determined blindness; Optic nerve atrophy; Retinitis pigmentosa; Saudi Arabia; Underdeveloped countries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BIOMICROSCOPY; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; SAUDI ARABIA; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; BLINDNESS; CHILD; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOLS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644782614     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09286580500477317     Document Type: Article

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