Prevalence of Cataract Surgery and Postoperative Visual Outcome in Greater Beijing: The Beijing Eye Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1322-1331

  Liu, Bin ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Wang, Ya Xing ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINA; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHAKIA, POSTCATARACT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 67649341988     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.01.030     Document Type: Article

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