Early detection of Best's disease in childhood due to ineffective orthoptic treatment

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 225, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 465-468

  Jaggi, Gregor P ^a,c   Wirthlin, J ^a   Eggmann, A ^b   Killer, H E ^a,c   Forrer, A ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Aarau ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Augenarzt Praxis Dr Med A Eggmann   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Best's disease; congenital eye disorder; Optical coherence tomography; Retina; Retinal filling in; Vitelliform maculopathy

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORTHOPTICS; PERIMETRY; RETINA MACULA VITELLIFORM DEGENERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOTOMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORTHOPTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 47649084204     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1027270     Document Type: Article

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