Letter to the Editor

Response to: Comment on “Exotropia Is the Main Pattern of Childhood Strabismus Surgery in the South of China: A Six-Year Clinical Review”

Table 1

Distributions of strabismus subtypes for all age groups between 2006 and 2011.

Age groupYear
200620072008200920102011
0–67–170–67–170–67–170–67–170–67–170–67–17

Intermittent exotropia64553615672978318840115
(10%)(24%)(6%)(17%)(16%)(25%)(28%)(29%)(24%)(29%)(25%)(33%)
Constant exotropia15278571051177113491461
(23%)(15%)(9%)(28%)(11%)(19%)(16%)(26%)(10%)(16%)(9%)(17%)
Infant esotropia39147867510141513
(5%)(5%)(16%)(3%)(8%)(2%)(6.5%)(2%)(8%)(5%)(9%)(4%)
Partial accommodative esotropia412101691810119151620
(6%)(6%)(12%)(8%)(9%)(7.5%)(10%)(4%)(7%)(5%)(10%)(6%)
Nonaccommodative esotropia93014352048183514492140
(14%)(16%)(16%)(17%)(21%)(18%)(17%)(13%)(11%)(16%)(13%)(12%)
Congenital superior oblique palsy88106141681214131320
(12%)(4%)(12%)(3%)(15%)(6.5%)(7.5%)(4%)(11%)(4%)(8%)(6%)
Others195525501958166037764278
(30%)(30%)(29%)(24%)(20%)(22%)(15%)(22%)(29%)(25%)(26%)(22%)

Total641868620795264105272128304161347
(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)(100%)