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PRACTICAL DETAILS IN THE ORTHOPTIC TREATMENT OF STRABISMUS
GEORGE P. GUIBOR, M.D.
Arch Ophthal. 1934;12(6):887-901.
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A preliminary report of the possibilities of orthoptic training was presented before the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association in June 1933. The present report covers the patients included in that report and additional ones who have been accepted for treatment and observed for at least six months. Since the previous report an article by Cantonnet1 has appeared. Certain classes of strabismus are described which are difficult to remedy. These include strabismus with false macula, the incidence of which among cases of squint he places at 0.5 per cent, and strabismus with paradoxical diplopia, which need not be described here. He believes that patients with strabismus of these types can be reeducated, though with great difficulty.
In contradistinction to many authors, Cantonnet does not believe that fusion training is practical under the age of 5. The upper age limit is much higher than that given by
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Author Affiliations
CHICAGO
From the Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Medical School, and the Children's Memorial Hospital.
Footnotes
Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the Eighty-Fifth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Cleveland, June 14, 1934.
This study was done with the aid of a fellowship supplied by the Knapp Testimonial Fund and a grant from the Academy of Ophthalmology.
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