Visual impairment and delay in presentation for surgery in Chinese pediatric patients with cataract

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-23

  You, Caiyun ^a   Wu, Xiaoming ^a   Zhang, Yingying ^a   Dai, Yunhai ^a   Huang, Yusen ^a   Xie, Lixin ^a  

^a SHANDONG EYE INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHINESE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGE FACTORS; APHAKIA, POSTCATARACT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RETINOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRABISMUS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 78650845185     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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