African Race-influenced Bilateral Amblyopia among West Indian Immigrants in the United Kingdom.
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WITH the increase of West Indian immigration to Great Britain in recent years, cryptogenic, bilateral amblyopia has been encountered with greater frequency among West Indians in ophthalmological and neurological clinics in London. The present series comprises seventeen cases seen personally in various hospitals, mostly at Moorfields Eye Hospital (Table). Included in this series is the daughter of a senior member of the West Indian Government service, referred direct from the West Indies to London for a neuro-ophthalmological opinion (Case 5).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of ophthalmology
دوره 46 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1962