Local corneal thickness changes after small-incision cataract surgery

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1667-1671

  Bolz, Matthias ^a   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Findl, Oliver ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; HUMAN; INCISION; MEASUREMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CORNEA; CORNEAL EDEMA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; LIGHT; LIMBUS CORNEAE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 33748929114     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.05.018     Document Type: Article

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