Chauvaud Dominique
Unité de chirurgie vitréo-rétinienne, Hôtel-Dieu 1, place du Parvis Notre-Dame, 75181 Paris 04.
Bull Acad Natl Med. 2005 May;189(5):867-72; discussion 872.
High myopia is the fifth cause of legal blindness in France. Myopic blindness is somewhat neglected, however, because it is poorly understood and untreatable. Certain mechanisms of this visual handicap have been elucidated by the use of new imaging technologies, raising new therapeutic possibilities.