Paediatric cataract surgery

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 698-710

  Zetterström, Charlotta ^a   Kugelberg, Maria ^b  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cataract surgery; Children; Intraocular lens; Secondary glaucoma; Visual axis opacification

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; CEFUROXIME; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPENTOLATE; DEXAMETHASONE; EYE DROPS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG; MITOMYCIN C; MYDRIATIC AGENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE; TROPICAMIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

AFTERCATARACT; AMBLYOPIA; ANIRIDIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APHAKIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CATHETERIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEARNING DISORDER; LENS IMPLANT; LENS IMPLANTATION; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL DISEASE; RETINOSCOPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SPECTACLES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC CATARACT; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 35448998906     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.01007.x     Document Type: Review

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