Retinal detachment in south India - Presentation and treatment outcomes

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 748-753

  Jalali, Subhadra ^a   Yorston, David ^b   Shah, Nikunj J ^a   Das, Taraprasad ^a   Majji, Ajit Babu ^a   Hussain, Nazimul ^a   Nutheti, Rishita ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERAL BUCKLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 24944481296     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-1085-6     Document Type: Article

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