Cataract surgery for congenital cataract: Endothelial cell characteristics, corneal thickness, and impact on intraocular pressure

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-161

  Nilforushan, Naveed ^a   Falavarjani, Khalil Ghasemi ^a   Razeghinejad, Mohammad Reza ^b   Bakhtiari, Pejman ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TONOMETER;

APHAKIA, POSTCATARACT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CORNEA; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 34047093375     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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