Monitoring visual outcome of cataract surgery in India

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 455-460

  Limburg, H ^a,b   Foster, A ^c   Vaidyanathan, K ^a   Murthy, G V S ^d  

^a Natl Prog Contr of Blindn India   (India)

^b Institute for Ophthalmology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c St Bartholomew's Roy London H   (United Kingdom)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PSEUDOPHAKIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033064587     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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