title: Axial length elongation, not corneal curvature, as a basis of adult onset myopia.
abstract: Adult-onset myopia is most often reported in college age individuals. Its prevalence and the refractive component(s) responsible are essentially unknown; some recent studies implicate corneal curvature. Here I present a single case of adult-onset myopia over a period of 23 years in which axial elongation, and not steepening corneal curvature, is suggested as the most likely basis for the 4.50 D increase in refractive error.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003315:Cornea / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000209:etiology*