Is the incidence of infantile esotropia declining? A population-based study from olmsted county, Minnesota, 1965 to 1994

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 200-203

  Louwagie, Curtis R ^a   Diehl, Nancy N ^a   Greenberg, Amy E ^a   Mohney, Brian G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE ESOTROPIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; GEOGRAPHY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOTROPIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MINNESOTA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 60549110716     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.568     Document Type: Article

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