Five year cataract surgical rate in Iran

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 890-894

  Hashemi, Hassan ^a,b   Alipour, Fatemeh ^b   Mehravaran, Shiva ^a   Rezvan, Farhad ^a   Fotouhi, Akbar ^d   Alaedini, Farshid ^c  

^a NOOR EYE HOSPITAL   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d R and D Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Avoidable blindness; Cataract surgery; Cataract surgical rate; CSR; Iran; Vision 2020

Indexed keywords

AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS; CATARACT SURGERY; CATARACT SURGICAL RATE; CSR; IRAN;

EYE PROTECTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMAN; IRAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67651024988     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181ae1cc6     Document Type: Article

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