Displacement of nuclear fragments into the vitreous complicating phacoemulsification surgery in the UK: Incidence and risk factors

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 488-492

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

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c St Leonards on Sea   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL COLLEGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYDRIASIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; LENS SUBLUXATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 41849114181     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.113936     Document Type: Article

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