Cataract surgery in Togo;La chirurgie de la cataracte au Togo

Cahiers Sante

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-8

  Mensah, A ^a   Balo, K P ^a   Kondi, G ^a   Banla, M ^a   Koffigue, K B ^a   Resnikoff, S ^b   Astagneau, P ^c   Brucker G ^c  

^a Institut National d'Hygiène   (Togo)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cataract; Ophtalmology; Togo

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; TOGO;

BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOGO;

EID: 0038408483     PISSN: 11575999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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