Cataracts: Lifting the clouds on an age-old problem

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 114-126

  Trudo, Edward W ^a   Stark, Walter J ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0031750179     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.05.478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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