Lens surgery (cataract and refractive lens exchange) and retinal detachment risk in myopes: Still an issue?

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-303

  Alió, Jorge L ^a,b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b Alicante   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTIGMATISM; CAPSULE OPACIFICATION; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; EMMETROPIA; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LASER SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NEODYMIUM LASER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE LENS EXCHANGE; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TEAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMANS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MYOPIA; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79952019091     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2010.186429     Document Type: Editorial

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