Traditional couching is not an effective alternative procedure for cataract surgery in Mali.
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers in Ophthalmic Epidemiology
- Vol. 7 (4), 271-283
- https://doi.org/10.1076/opep.7.4.271.4174
Abstract
In Mali, more cataract patients receive sight-restoring surgery using a traditional "couching" procedure (the lens inside the vitreous body) than by modern cataract surgery. In order to evaluate the relative effectiveness and other outcomes of the traditional procedure compared to the modern surgical intervention, we conducted a population-based survey in a rural district of Mali in 1996.Keywords
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