Comparing the efficacy and safety of phacoemulsification in white mature and other types of senile cataracts

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1356-1359

  Ermis S S ^a,b   Ozturk F ^b   Inan, U U ^b  

^a Dervispasamah   (Turkey)

^b AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; OXYBUPROCAINE; TRYPAN BLUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; DEVICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PAIN; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; SAFETY; SENILE CATARACT; TIME; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCOELASTICITY; VISUAL ACUITY; WHITE MATURE CATARACT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CATARACT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0345305816     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.11.1356     Document Type: Article

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