Research Article
Long-Term Natural Course of Pathologic Myopia in Chinese Patients
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of children and adults at the initial examination.
| | Children (31 eyes of 21 patients) | Adults (12 eyes of 7 patients) |
| Median age at initial examination (range) (yrs) | 6.6 (1.1 to 14.3) | 38.1 (25.7 to 45.6) | Median SE (range) (D) | −8.9 (−6 to −21.5) | −16.4 (−12.5 to −22.5) | Median axial length (range) (mm) | 26.13 (21.53 to 30.11) | 29.8 (27.16 to 32.35) | Median follow-up (range) (yrs) | 3.9 (2 to 7.2) | 5.4 (2.4 to 6) |
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D: diopters; yrs: years; SE: spherical equivalent.
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