Topical anaesthesia: a risk factor for post‐cataract‐extraction endophthalmitis?
- 28 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology
- Vol. 31 (2), 125-128
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00618.x
Abstract
Purpose: To investigate if the incidence of postoperative endophthalmitis in temporal clear corneal cataract surgery is influenced by the use of topical anaesthesia compared to retrobulbar anaesthes...This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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