Pediatric Cataract: The Toronto Experience-Etiology

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 887-892

  Lim, Zena ^a   Rubab, Shehla ^a   Chan, Yiong Huak ^b   Levin, Alex V ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE STUDY; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CHILD; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT; TRAUMATIC CATARACT; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CATARACT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77952549654     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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