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ACCOMMODATIVE DISFACILITY PRESENTING AS INTERMITTENT EXOTROPIA
Author(s) -
Stark Lawrence,
Ciuffreda Kenneth J.,
Grisham J. David,
Kenyon Robert V.,
Liu John,
Polse Kenneth
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
ophthalmic and physiological optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.147
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1475-1313
pISSN - 0275-5408
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1313.1984.tb00361.x
Subject(s) - intermittent exotropia , exotropia , optometry , ophthalmology , medicine , strabismus
Accommodative disfacility and intermittent exotropia are two common clinically‐observed ocular abnormalities. However, records of individual system dynamics arc rare and mechanisms for possible interactive effects between the accommodation and the vergence system remain obscure in cases of system dysfunction. We present objective, quantitative, static and dynamic records of accommodation, vergence and related system responses in a symptomatic patient having accommodation disfacility and intermittent exotropia and propose that these two conditions worked in a pathogenic symbiotic manner.

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