Clinical outcomes after lens extraction for visually significant cataract in eyes with primary angle closure

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 545-550

  Shams, Pari N ^a   Foster, Paul J ^a,b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; IRIDOCYCLITIS; IRIDOTOMY; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIMARY ANGLE CLOSURE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDECTOMY; IRIS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84867233865     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e31821db1db     Document Type: Article

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