Visual impairment in very low birthweight children
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Visual impairment in very low birthweight children.
AIMS To compare the visual function of a cohort of very low birthweight (VLBW) children in early adolescence with that of their normal birthweight peers; to correlate visual impairment in this group with available perinatal data; and to examine the relation between the visual ability of VLBW children and their cognitive and motor skills. METHODS As part of a long term neurodevelopmental study...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/fn.76.2.f82