Cataract in Children Attending Schools for the Blind and Resource Centers in Eastern Africa

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1009-1012

  Msukwa, Gerald ^a   Njuguna, Margaret ^b   Tumwesigye, Cillasy ^c   Shilio, Bernadeth ^d   Courtright, Paul ^e   Lewallen, Susan ^e  

^a Lions SightFirst Eye Hospital   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^e Good Samaritan Foundation   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; KENYA; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; UGANDA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA, EASTERN; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALAWI; MALE; SCHOOLS; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 65349183490     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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