Prevalence of heterophoria and associations with refractive error, heterotropia and ethnicity in Australian school children

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 542-546

  Leone, Jody F ^a   Cornell, Elaine ^a   Morgan, Ian G ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Kifley, Annette ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a   Rose, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; EXOPHORIA; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HETEROPHORIA; HETEROTROPISM; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; STRABISMUS;

EID: 77952219381     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.163709     Document Type: Article

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