An Epidemiologic Survey of Strabismus among School-Children in Korea
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
;
: 2195-2199, 1997.
Artículo
en Coreano
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-213164
ABSTRACT
We Performed an epidemiologic survey for strabismus among primary school-children in order to investigate the number of strabismus from March 1995 to February 1996. Cover-uncover test and prism cover test were used. The results were as follows1. Out of 9054 1st grade primary school-children examined, 322(3.56%) were found as strabismus. 2. 322 cases of strabismus include 262(81.4%)exodeviation and 60(18.6%) esodeviation. 3. Alternating type and monocular type strabismus have no difference both in exotropia and esotrapia. 4. In exotropia and esotropia, no sexual predilection was found. 5. Most portion of deviation angle distribute between 11 to 20 prism diopter. 6. The difference of number of strabismus between big cities and small cities was statistically insignificant(p>0.05).
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Disponible
Índice:
WPRIM (Pacífico Occidental)
Asunto principal:
Esotropía
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Exotropía
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Estrabismo
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Epidemiología
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Corea (Geográfico)
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Coreano
Revista:
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
Año:
1997
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
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