Impact of nuclear cataract density on postoperative refractive outcome: IOL master versus ultrasound

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 384-387

  Ueda, Tetsuo ^a   Taketani, Futoshi ^a   Ota, Takeo ^a   Hara, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cataract density; IOL Master; Nuclear cataract; Postoperative refractive outcome; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REFRACTION INDEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFRACTION, OCULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35348935595     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107497     Document Type: Article

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