Effect of exposure to balanced salt solution upon the hardness of the crystalline lens

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 890-893

  Tabandeh, Homayoun ^a,b   Karim, Abdul ^a   Thompson, Graham M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b College of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED SALT SOLUTION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; HARDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0031762539     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050176     Document Type: Article

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