Reduction of Nd:YAG capsulotomy rates after implantation of a single-piece acrylic hydrophilic intraocular lens with 360° squared optic edge: 24-Month results

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 651-655

  Mathew, Rashmi G ^a,b   Coombes, Andrew G A ^c  

^a BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; ACRYLIC ACID COPOLYMER; METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULE OPACIFICATION; CAPSULOTOMY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS IMPLANTATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; SOLID STATE LASER; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE OPACIFICATION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79953246679     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20100929-04     Document Type: Article

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