The prevalence of anisometropia, amblyopia and strabismus in schoolchildren of Shiraz, Iran

Strabismus

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 104-110

  Yekta, Abbasali ^a   Fotouhi, Akbar ^b   Hashemi, Hassan ^c,d   Dehghani, Cirous ^e   Ostadimoghaddam, Hadi ^a   Heravian, Javad ^a   Derakhshan, Akbar ^f   Yekta, Reihaneh ^a   Rezvan, Farhad ^d   Behnia, Mehdi ^d   Khabazkhoob, Mehdi ^d  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d NOOR EYE HOSPITAL   (Iran)

^e SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Anisometropia; Strabismus; Vision screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VERTICAL STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; STRABISMUS; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77956662471     PISSN: 09273972     EISSN: 17445132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09273972.2010.502957     Document Type: Article

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