Visuospatial skills, ocular alignment, and magnetic resonance imaging findings in very low birth weight adolescents

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Hellgren, Kerstin ^a   Aring, Eva ^b   Jacobson, Lena ^a   Ygge, Jan ^a   Martin, Lene ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WHITE MATTER DAMAGE OF IMMATURITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOMETROPIA; ASTIGMATISM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349279202     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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