Severe retinopathy of prematurity: longitudinal observation of disease and screening implications
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Screening for retinopathy of prematurity.
The demise of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) was confidently forecast in the 1950s when supplemental oxygen was identified as a causal factor. Unfortunately this did not transpire and by the mid-1960s it became all too apparent that ROP was not solely of historical interest. The purpose of this article is to consider screening for ROP working on the basis that at present this condition is not...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6701437