A-scan quantitative echography of senile cataracts and correlation with phacoemulsification parameters

Current Eye Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-181

  Brazitikos, Periklis D ^a,c   Androudi, Sofia ^a   Papadopoulos, Nick T ^a   Christen, William G ^b   Stangos, Nikolaos T ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

A scan; Cataract classification; Quantitative echography

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENILE CATARACT; SPIKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION;

EID: 0141650601     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.27.3.175.16051     Document Type: Article

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