Abstract
Various types of severe eye malformations existed in 439 children, 198 of them had a congenital cataract. Infants of women born outside Sweden had an increased risk; except for this no maternal risk factor including drug use could be identified.
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Källén, B. (2014). Severe Eye Malformations. In: Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01472-2_10
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