Changes in lens power in Singapore Chinese children during refractive development

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5124-5130

  Iribarren, Rafael ^a   Morgan, Ian G ^b   Chan, Yiong Huak ^c   Lin, Xiaoyu ^d   Saw, Seang Mei ^d  

^a Centro Medico San Luis   (Argentina)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHINESE; CORNEAL POWER; EMMETROPIA; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LENS POWER; LENS SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGAPORE; SPHERICAL EQUIVALENT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHINA; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84864686643     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9637     Document Type: Article

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