Congenital cataract in Victoria, Australia.
A retrospective review of school children presenting as partially sighted or 'blind' from cataract shows they account for 91 of 531 (17.1%) cases of visual impairment in a 9-year period, 1977-1985. An apparent peak of incidence occurred in 1983, but there was no obvious aetiology for this peak.
Maclean
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University of Melbourne, Department of Ophthalmology, Vic., Australia.
D001315:Australia; D001766:Blindness / Q000453:epidemiology; D002386:Cataract / Q000151:congenital* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies