Childhood cataract: Magnitude, management, economics and impact

Community Eye Health

Volumn 17, Issue 50, 2004, Pages 17-18

  Shamanna, B R ^a   Muralikrishnan, R ^b  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CASE FINDING; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 4143051278     PISSN: 09536833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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