Complications of phacoemulsification on the first postoperative day: Can follow-up be safely changed?

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 985-988

  Herbert, Edward N ^a   Gibbons, Helen ^a   Bell, Jean ^a   Hughes, David S ^a   Flanagan, Declan W ^a  

^a HINCHINGBROOKE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORNEA INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; IRIS DISEASE; LENS IMPLANTATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULECTOMY; UVEITIS; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY;

EID: 0032992879     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0886-3350(99)00079-6     Document Type: Article

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