Vision screening in children entering school: Eskisehir, Turkey

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 232-238

  Gursoy, Huseyin ^a   Basmak, Hikmet ^a   Yaz, Yetkin ^b   Colak, Ertugrul ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b Eskisehir Yunus Emre Government Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Myopia; Refractive errors; School children; Strabismus; Turkey; Vision screening

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMIC REFRACTOMETER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRABISMUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMBLYOPIA; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SCHOOLS; TURKEY; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84880530563     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09286586.2013.808672     Document Type: Article

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