Review of amblyopia treatment: Are we overtreating children with amblyopia?
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Current treatment of amblyopia: where are we?
Early on in our training as ophthalmologists, we are taught how to diagnose amblyopia and promptly initiate its treatment. Although such information during the learning process seems to be quite valuable, evidence is lacking for some of the procedures used to treat amblyopia that have been taught to successive generations of ophthalmologists. Nobel laureates Hubel and Wiesel characterized the b...
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عنوان ژورنال: British and Irish Orthoptic Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2516-3590
DOI: 10.22599/bioj.17