Prospective study of foveal thickness alterations after cataract surgery assessed by optical coherence tomography

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-58

  Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis ^a   Diakonis, Vasilios F ^a,b   Kymionis, George D ^a,b   Eleftheriadou, Maria I ^a   Fragkiskou, Sofia ^a   Moschandreas, Joanna ^b   Frueh, Beatrice E ^c   Epstein, Daniel ^d   Pallikaris, Aristophanis I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c PSI   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cataract surgery; Diabetes mellitus; Epiretinal membrane; Foveal thickness; Glaucoma; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN FOVEAL THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL HISTORY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA FOVEA; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84863326214     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: 14230267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000336908     Document Type: Article

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