Results of cataract surgery in young children in east Africa

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-271

  Yorston, D ^a   Wood, M ^a   Foster, A ^b  

^a Kikuyu Hospital   (Kenya)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMBLYOPIA; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BLINDNESS; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMBLYOPIA; BIOMETRY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRABISMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035078558     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.85.3.267     Document Type: Article

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