Corneal incision quality: Microincision cataract surgery versus microcoaxial phacoemulsification

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 466-474

  Elkady, Bassam ^a   Piñero, David ^a   Alió, Jorge L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; LENS IMPLANT; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULORHEXIS; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 61549113079     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.11.047     Document Type: Article

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