"Heavy Eye" syndrome in the absence of high myopia: A connective tissue degeneration in elderly strabismic patients

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-44

  Rutar, Tina ^a,b   Demer, Joseph L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAVY EYE SYNDROME; HIGH MYOPIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTROPHY; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; STRABISMUS; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIPLOPIA; ESOTROPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES;

EID: 60249084020     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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