Treatment of Anisometropic Amblyopia with Spectacles or in Combination with Translucent Bangerter Filters

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1475-1480

  Agervi, Pia ^a   Kugelberg, Ulla ^a   Kugelberg, Maria ^a   Simonsson, Gunnela ^a   Fornander, Monica ^a   Zetterström, Charlotta ^b  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FILTER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; TRANSLUCENT BANGERTER FILTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMBLYOPIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 67949089630     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.02.023     Document Type: Article

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