Outcomes of cataract surgery: A population-based developing world study in the Bhaktapur district, Nepal

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 851-857

  Thapa, Suman S ^a   Khanal, Shankar ^b   Paudyal, Indira ^a   Twyana, Shankha N ^a   Ruit, Sanduk ^a   Van Rens, Ger Hmb ^c  

^a TILGANGA INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Nepal)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cataract surgery; Nepal; Population based study; Visual outcome.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TONOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHAKIA, POSTCATARACT; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 82955203419     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02576.x     Document Type: Article

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