Prevalence of cataract surgery and postoperative visual outcome in rural central India: Central India Eye and Medical Study

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1932-1938

  Nangia, Vinay ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b   Gupta, Rajesh ^a   Khare, Anshu ^a   Sinha, Ajit ^a  

^a Suraj Eye Institute   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE OPACIFICATION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INDIA; LENS IMPLANT; LENS POWER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHAKIA, POSTCATARACT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 80054806690     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: 18734502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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