Silicone versus polymethylmethacrylate intraocular lenses with regard to capsular opacification

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-58

  Olson, Randall J ^a   Crandall, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); SILICONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; LENS IMPLANT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031976088     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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