Management of macular pucker

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 701-703

  Khokhar, Abdur Rasheed ^a   Faiz ur Rab, Khowaja ^a,b   Akhtar, Hafiz Usman ^a  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b NONE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Macular pucker; Metamorphopsia; Posterior vitrectomy maculorrhexis; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MACULAR PECKER; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0842323811     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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