Early experience with the femtosecond laser for cataract surgery

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 891-899

  Bali, Shveta Jindal ^a   Hodge, Chris ^a   Lawless, Michael ^a   Roberts, Timothy V ^a,b   Sutton, Gerard ^a,b  

^a Vision Eye Institute   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; KETOROLAC TROMETAMOL;

AGED; ANTERIOR CAPSULOTOMY; ANTERIOR RADIAL TEAR; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL INCISION; DROPPED NUCLEUS; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FOLLOW UP; FREE FLOATING CAPSULOTOMY; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; LENS CAPSULE RUPTURE; LENS FRAGMENTATION; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL ANTERIOR CAPSULAR TAG; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, EXCIMER; LEARNING CURVE; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84860471657     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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