Trypan blue-assisted high-volume cataract surgery in a peri-urban eye hospital in India

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-

  Sinha, Rajesh ^a   Sharma, Namrata ^a   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^a   Titiyal, Jeewan S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; TRYPAN BLUE;

ARTICLE; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INDIA; LENS IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL FIELD; VITREOUS BODY;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYE DISEASES; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 32644440763     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/004947506775598761     Document Type: Letter

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