Screening and treating amblyopia: Are we making a difference?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2084-2088

  Morad, Yair ^a,c   Bakshi, Erez ^b   Levin, Avi ^b   Binyamini, Oren G ^a   Zadok, David ^a   Avni, Isaac ^a   Bar Dayan, Yosefa ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REFRACTION ERROR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRABISMUS; STUDENT T TEST; USSR; VISUAL ACUITY; ETHNOLOGY; JEW; MIGRATION; MILITARY MEDICINE; PREVALENCE; SOLDIER; VISION TEST;

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34250155291     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0089     Document Type: Article

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