Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 11 , Pages 2354-2358 , November 2004

Incidence of and risk factors for residual posterior capsule opacification after cataract surgery

  • V.Vinod Mootha, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to V. Vinod Mootha, MD, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Surgery, Division of Ophthalmology, MSC10-5610, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
    • Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    • Veterans Administration Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    • ,
  • Rachel Tesser, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
    • ,
  • Clifford Qualls, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    • Veterans Administration Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA

,Accepted 9 March 2004.

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☆ Presented in part at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, May 2002.

☆☆ None of the authors has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

★ Christy Dingus provided the medical illustrations and Joyce Mullen, the slitlamp photography. Edward Otero and Chris Miguel-Nathan assisted with the manuscript preparation.

PII: S0886-3350(04)00409-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.03.038

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 11 , Pages 2354-2358 , November 2004

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