Effects of orthoptic treatment on the CA/C and AC/A ratios in convergence insufficiency

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2876-2880

  Brautaset, Rune L ^a   Jennings, Adrian J M ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; EYE EXAMINATION; HUMAN; ORTHOPTICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; REFRACTOMETER; ACCOMMODATION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORTHOPTICS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 33746716359     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-1372     Document Type: Article

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