Impairment of visual acuity and reading performance and the relationship with cataract type and density

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2071-2075

  Stifter, Eva ^a   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Benesch, Thomas ^a   Weghaupt, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CLASSIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; READING; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 22144499231     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0890     Document Type: Article

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