Outcome after treatment of congenital unilateral cataract

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 588-592

  Lundvall, Anna ^a   Kugelberg, Ulla ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Congenital unilateral cataract; Infant; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRABISMUS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036914960     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2002.800606.x     Document Type: Article

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