Modern Cataract Surgery: Unfinished Business and Unanswered Questions

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages S3-S53

  Apple, David J ^a   Escobar Gomez, Marcela ^a   Zaugg, Brian ^a   Kleinmann, Guy ^b   Borkenstein, Andreas F ^a  

^a Sullivan's Island   (United States)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

clinicopathological analysis; glistenings; intracapsular fibrosis; intraocular lenses; Posterior capsule opacification

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BIOMATERIAL;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; OCULAR FIBROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; CAPSULE OPACIFICATION; HISTORY; LENS IMPLANTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER;

CAPSULE OPACIFICATION; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84856426902     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: 18793304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2011.10.001     Document Type: Review

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