Five-year incidence and postoperative visual outcome of cataract surgery in urban southern China: The liwan eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 7936-7942

  Huang, Wenyong ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Wang, Lanhua ^a   Huang, Shengsong ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Jin, Ling ^a   Congdon, Nathan G ^a,b   He, Mingguang ^a,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ORBIS INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INSURANCE; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CATARACT; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84870506705     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10903     Document Type: Article

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