Evidence-based dilemmas in pre-school vision screening
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منابع مشابه
Pre-school vision study.
Research into the development of visual functions, especially during the last three decades, has produced strong evidence in favour of early treatment of visual disorders (Lyle and Foley, 1957, Sauberli, I962). The most important and most damaging of these disorders are amblyopia, eccentric fixation, and anomalous retinal correspondence. The aim of the present investigation was to design a test...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.78.5.406