Cataract surgery in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome: current updates
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Cataract surgery in patients with pseudoex-foliation syndrome: current updates
Pseudoexfoliation is a ubiquitous syndrome of multifactorial origin affecting elderly people by increasing the risk of cataract and secondary glaucoma development. Despite modern techniques and technologies for cataract surgery, pseudoexfoliation syndrome represents a challenge for surgeons because of the increased weakness of the zonular apparatus and limited pupil dilation. Due to the inheren...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Ophthalmology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1177-5483
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s142870