The influence of posterior capsular opacification removal on anterior segment birefringence parameters as measured by scanning laser polarimetry

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 414-420

  Garcia Medina, Jose J ^a,b   Garcia Medina, Manuel ^a,c   Zanon Moreno, Vicente C ^a   Gallego Pinazo, Roberto ^a   Pons Vazquez, Sheila ^a   Gonzalez Ocampo, Samuel ^a   Pinazo Durán, María D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^b Hospital de Huercal Overa   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL TORRECÁRDENAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anterior segment birefringence; Capsulotomy; GDx; Posterior capsular opacification; Scanning laser polarimetry

Indexed keywords

APRACLONIDINE; BRIMONIDINE; RIMEXOLONE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; POLARIMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIREFRINGENCE; CATARACT; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34547440281     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01515.x     Document Type: Article

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