Is there a hyperopic shift in myopic eyes during the presbyopic years?

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 236-243

  Grosvenor, Theodore ^a   Skeates, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Age related hyperopic shift; Age related myopic shift; Myopia; Presbyopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744363306     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.1999.tb06654.x     Document Type: Article

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