Reducing vision loss in chronic eye disease

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 774-779

  Fong, Anthony ^a   Lee, Graham ^b  

^a City Eye Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VISION, LOW;

EID: 74049105546     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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