Refractive error following cataract extraction with the implantation of a standard power intraocular lens in a rural African blindness prevention programme [3]

Eye

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-195

  Beatty, James ^a   Cook, C ^a   Murdoch, I ^b  

^a EDENDALE HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; LENS IMPLANTATION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTOMETER; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 1342325150     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700549     Document Type: Letter

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