For the more than forty years, the medical staff at Children's Hospital Boston's Department of Ophthalmology have examined more than a quarter of a million children with eye problems, more than 19,000 visits each year. We see patients in Boston and at our other Massachusetts locations: Peabody, Lexington, Weymouth, Waltham, Sandwich and The Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary.
The sheer volume of complex and unusual cases combined with more routine conditions has built the department's special expertise. As a result, the department has become the referral center for children with difficult eye problems, including rare pediatric eye conditions that are seen here in large volume, as well as adults with strabismus .
Notable features of the Department of Ophthalmology include:
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