title: Refractive abnormalities in childhood.
abstract: The knowledgeable pediatrician can make a significant contribution to the management of refractive errors by aiding in the early recognition of abnormalities, making appropriate referrals, and reinforcing the ophthalmologist's recommendations to the family. If this article has focused the reader's attention and caused a few rays of light to fall on an important subject, it has achieved its purpose.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. mark.greenwald@seattlechildrens.org
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Greenwald
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D015858:Anisometropia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D001251:Astigmatism; D002648:Child; D003261:Contact Lenses; D018450:Disease Progression; D004948:Esotropia; D005139:Eyeglasses; D006801:Humans; D006956:Hyperopia; D007646:Keratotomy, Radial; D009216:Myopia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy