Is there a latent period for the surgical treatment of children with dense bilateral congenital cataracts?

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-36

  Lambert, Scott R ^a   Lynn, Michael J ^b   Reeves, Rachel ^a   Plager, David A ^c   Buckley, Edward G ^d   Wilson, M Edward ^e  

^a EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LENSECTOMY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGE FACTORS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644752583     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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