Combined gaze-angle and vergence variation in infantile nystagmus: Two therapies that improve the high-visual-acuity field and methods to measure it

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2451-2460

  Serra, Alessandro ^a,d   Dell'Osso, Louis F ^a,b,c,f   Jacobs, Jonathan B ^a,b   Burnstine, Robert A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^e Akron Pediatric Ophthalmology   (United States)

^f LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; RECORDING; TENOTOMY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; WAVEFORM; CONGENITAL NYSTAGMUS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTACLES; TENDON; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, CONGENITAL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TENDONS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33745644552     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1320     Document Type: Article

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