Clear Lens Extraction for the Correction of High Myopia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2349-2354

  Fernández Vega, Luis ^a,b   Alfonso, José F ^b   Villacampa, Tomás ^a  

^a Hospital de Asturias   (Spain)

^b Fernández Vega Ophthalmological Institute   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CLEAR LENS EXTRACTION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEODYMIUM LASER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DETACHMENT SURGERY; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SPECTACLES; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 0344442786     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(03)00794-2     Document Type: Article

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