Eye size in threshold retinopathy of prematurity, based on a danish preterm infant series: Early axial eye growth, pre- and postnatal aspects

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4177-4184

  Fledelius, Hans Callø ^a   Fledelius, Christian ^b  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND OCULOMETRY; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; EYE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INCIDENCE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EYE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; PROGNOSIS; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84865642141     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9516     Document Type: Article

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