Can uncompensated higher order aberration profile, or aberropia be responsible for subnormal best corrected vision and pseudo-amblyopia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 574-577

  Agarwal, Amar ^a   Prakash, Gaurav ^a   Jacob, Soosan ^a   Ashokkumar, Dhivya ^a   Agarwal, Athiya ^a  

^a Dr Agarwal Eye Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERROPIA; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER SURGERY; LENS IMPLANT; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETINA IMAGE; SPECTACLES; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING;

AMBLYOPIA; HUMANS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 61349119265     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.12.030     Document Type: Article

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