Risk Factors for Complications After Congenital Cataract Surgery without Intraocular Lens Implantation in the First 18 Months of Life

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kuhli Hattenbach, Claudia ^a   Lüchtenberg, Marc ^a   Kohnen, Thomas ^a   Hattenbach, Lars Olof ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INFANT; LENS IMPLANT; LENSECTOMY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 45449105160     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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