Medical Evaluation of Nutritional Status: IV. The Ocular Manifestations of Avitaminosis A, with Especial Consideration of the Detection of Early Changes by Biomicroscopy
- 1 July 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly
- Vol. 19 (3), 207-A2
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3347632
Abstract
Biomicroscopic examination combined with gross examination revealed 99% of 143 persons examined in a low income group to have lesions characteristic of avitaminosis A. Adm. of large amts. of vit. A (100,000 U. daily) caused marked improvement or disappearance of symptoms. Recovery was slow, frequently a matter of mos.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Medical Evaluation of Nutritional Status: II. Measurement of Visual Dark Adaptation with the AdaptometerThe Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 1940
- Ocular Manifestations of AriboflavinosisPublic Health Reports®, 1940