Infantile cataracts

International Ophthalmology Clinics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-192

  Krishnamurthy, Rupa ^a   VanderVeen, Deborah K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CYCLOPENTOLATE; DELTA CRYSTALLIN; ENOXAPARIN; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; HEPARIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AMBLYOPIA; ANISEIKONIA; APHAKIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CERULEAN CATARACT; CHICKENPOX; CHROMOSOME 22; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; COPPER METABOLISM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; EMBRYOLOGY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EYE DISEASE; FIBRIN DEPOSITION; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GALACTOSEMIA; GENE MUTATION; GLAUCOMA; HEREDITY; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE CATARACT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; KERATOMETRY; LAMELLAR CATARACT; LENS IMPLANT; LENS SUTURE; LOWE SYNDROME; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEWBORN INFECTION; NUCLEAR CATARACT; PATAU SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POLAR CATARACT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; PULVERULENT CATARACT; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETINA DETACHMENT; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRISOMY 21;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 42449109578     PISSN: 00208167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IIO.0b013e3181694b31     Document Type: Review

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