A population-based study of Coats disease in the United Kingdom I: Epidemiology and clinical features at diagnosis

Eye

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1797-1801

  Morris, B ^a   Foot, B ^b   Mulvihill, A ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; Coats disease; retinal detachment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXUDATIVE RETINITIS; HUMAN; LEUKOKORIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STRABISMUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 78650209509     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2010.126     Document Type: Article

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