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The history of cataract surgery: from couching to phacoemulsification

Where and when cataract surgery started have been a mystery. Indian tradition and the Persian author Zarrin-Dast attributed the procedure to the Indians, while pseudo-Galen suggested an Egyptian origin. Certain idiosyncratic practices are common to early Greek and Sanskrit descriptions of cataract c...

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Autores principales: Leffler, Christopher T., Klebanov, Andrey, Samara, Wasim A., Grzybowski, Andrzej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7729313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33313296
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm-2019-rcs-04