Refraction and keratometry in premature infants
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Refraction and keratometry in premature infants.
A bnormalities of emmetropisation, resulting most often in myopia, have long been independently associated by numerous authors from nearly every corner of the globe with increasing prematurity, increasing severity of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and retinal ablative therapy. This topic has also been the subject of an editorial in the BJO in 1997, the substance of which remains true today. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2003.041186