Five-Year Experience of the 2-Incision Push-Pull Technique for Anterior and Posterior Capsulorrhexis in Pediatric Cataract Surgery

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1309-1314

  Hamada, Samer ^a,b   Low, Sancy ^a   Walters, Bronwen C ^a   Nischal, Ken K ^a,b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; LENS DISEASE; LENS IMPLANT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; VITREOUS DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRRIGATION; LACERATIONS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION;

EID: 33746544684     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.03.057     Document Type: Article

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