The morphology of cataract and visual performance

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 63-67

  Brown, Nicholas A Phelps ^a,b  

^a Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY; MYOPIA; RETINA; SENILE CATARACT; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CATARACT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84966161025     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1993.14     Document Type: Article

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