A 10 year retrospective survey of cataract surgery and endophthalmitis in a single eye unit: Injectable lenses lower the incidence of endophthalmitis

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 867-869

  Mayer, E ^a   Cadman, D ^a   Ewings, P ^b   Twomey, J M ^a   Gray, R H ^a   Claridge, K G ^a   Hakin, K N ^a   Bates, A K ^a  

^a TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Research and Development Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYE; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJECTION; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT EXTRACTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0037784173     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.7.867     Document Type: Article

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