The prescribing of prisms in clinical practice

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 627-629

  Gray, Lyle S ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular; Prisms; Vergence adaption

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIXATION FAILURE; HETEROPHORIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; PRESCRIPTIONS, NON-DRUG; STRABISMUS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 42049089829     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0799-2     Document Type: Editorial

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