Paediatric cataract blindness in the developing world: Surgical techniques and intraocular lenses in the new millennium

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-19

  Wilson, M E ^a,b   Pandey, S K ^b   Thakur, J ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c TILGANGA INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION; BLINDNESS; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CHILD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LENS IMPLANT; LENSECTOMY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEDIATRICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VITRECTOMY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EYEGLASSES; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KETAMINE; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR;

EID: 0037230316     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.1.14     Document Type: Review

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