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Weaning children with accommodative esotropia out of spectacles 7
from spectacles. Wilson and coworkers 14 have shown that binocularity
is an important factor in helping accommodative
esotropes maintain their ocular alignment. Since we excluded
patients from the present study who lacked binocularity we
could not evaluate the role of binocularity in successfully
weaning accommodative esotropes out of spectacles.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was supported in part by a Research to Prevent
Blindness, Inc Lew Wasserman Award (SRL) and by a Research to
Prevent Blindness unrestricted departmental grant (KAH). Presented
in part at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research and
Vision in Ophthalmology, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA, May 1999.
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Authors’ affiliations
K A Hutcheson, N J Ellish, Department of Ophthalmology, University of
Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
S R Lambert, Emory Eye Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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