Displacement of nuclear fragments into the vitreous complicating phacoemulsification surgery in the UK: Clinical features, outcomes and management

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-495

  Von Lany, H ^a   Mahmood, S ^b   James, C R H ^a   Cole, M D ^a   Charles, S J ^b   Foot, B ^c   Gouws, P ^d   Shaw, S ^e  

^a TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS   (United Kingdom)

^d East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; EYE; EYE INFLAMMATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANT; LENSECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOPHAKIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; ULTRASOUND; UNITED KINGDOM; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; LENS SUBLUXATION; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOPHAKIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 41849110970     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.114637     Document Type: Article

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