Prevention of suture knot exposure in posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation by 4-point scleral fixation technique

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 379-382

  Baykara, Mehmet ^a   Avci, Remzi ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INJURY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOUR POINT SCLERAL FIXATION TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; ROTATION; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; EYE CHAMBER DISEASE; EYE FIXATION; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; SUTURING METHOD; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33845509315     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1542-8877-20040901-06     Document Type: Article

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