Evaluation of accommodative insufficiency with the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)

Strabismus

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 199-204

  Abdi, S ^a   Rydberg, A ^a   Pansell, T ^a   Brautaset, R ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accommodative insufficiency; Asthenopia; Pediatric ophthalmology; School children; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHENOPIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTACLES; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ASTHENOPIA; CHILD; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33845623632     PISSN: 09273972     EISSN: 17445132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273970601026110     Document Type: Article

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