Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis: Review of incidence and visual outcomes (1995-2001)

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 373-378

  Eifrig, Charles W G ^a   Flynn Jr , Harry W ^a   Scott, Ingrid U ^a   Newton, Jean ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE SURGERY; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; ONSET AGE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; INCIDENCE; KERATOPLASTY; LENS IMPLANT; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036733369     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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