Refractive status at birth: Its relation to newborn physical parameters at birth and gestational age

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Varghese, Raji Mathew ^a   Sreenivas, Vishnubhatla ^b   Puliyel, Jacob Mammen ^a   Varughese, Sara ^c  

^a ST STEPHEN S HOSPITAL   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c Christoffel Blindenmission South Asia Regional Office   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE; TROPICAMIDE;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL GROWTH; REFRACTION ERROR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

EID: 84887212376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004469     Document Type: Article

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