Outcomes of Bilateral Cataract Surgery in Tanzanian Children

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2287-2292

  Bowman, Richard J C ^a,b   Kabiru, Joy ^a   Negretti, Guy ^a   Wood, Mark L ^a  

^a Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation for Tanzania Disability Hospital ^*  (Tanzania)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BIOMETRY; BLINDNESS; CAPSULOTOMY; CASE STUDY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EYE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTION INDEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRABISMUS; TANZANIA; TRANSIENT CORNEAL HAZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; YYTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET CAPSULOTOMY;

ACRYLATES; ADOLESCENT; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 35349025217     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.01.030     Document Type: Article

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