Ocular component growth curves among Singaporean children with different refractive error status

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1341-1347

  Wong, Hwee Bee ^a,b   Machin, David ^c   Tan, Say Beng ^d,e   Wong, Tien Yin ^b,f,g   Saw, Seang Mei ^b,g  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d SINGAPORE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^e DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMMETROPIA; EMMETROPIZING HYPEROPIA; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENT MYOPIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PERSISTENT HYPEROPIA; PERSISTENT MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPOREAN; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITREOUS BODY; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EYE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGAPORE;

AGING; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMETRY; CHILD; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MYOPIA; SINGAPORE; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77949891291     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3431     Document Type: Article

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