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Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-105

  de Jong, Paulus T V M ^a,b,c   Lubsen, Jacobus ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SOCAR RESEARCH SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSEUDOPHAKIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; YAG LASER;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1542285475     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0833-3     Document Type: Editorial

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