Long-term visual acuity and its predictors after surgery for congenital cataract: Findings of the British Congenital Cataract Study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4262-4269

  Chak, Melanie ^a,b   Wade, Angela ^a   Rahi, Jugnoo Sangeeta ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL CATARACT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN SCREENING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; CATARACT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFANT; LENS IMPLANTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33750581690     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1160     Document Type: Article

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