Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country

Couching in Nigeria is a well-documented treatment for cataracts among adult population, especially in the northern part of the country. Couching option among the pediatric age group is extremely rare, and its evolvement may be a pointer to deteriorating eye care in the country.

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Autores principales: Ademola-Popoola, D. S, Yusuf, I. A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Special Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7787085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33437598
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tjo.tjo_79_19
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spelling pubmed-77870852021-01-11 Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country Ademola-Popoola, D. S Yusuf, I. A Taiwan J Ophthalmol Special Report Couching in Nigeria is a well-documented treatment for cataracts among adult population, especially in the northern part of the country. Couching option among the pediatric age group is extremely rare, and its evolvement may be a pointer to deteriorating eye care in the country. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7787085/ /pubmed/33437598 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tjo.tjo_79_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Taiwan J Ophthalmol http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ademola-Popoola, D. S
Yusuf, I. A
Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country
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title_full Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country
title_fullStr Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country
title_full_unstemmed Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country
title_short Couching in pediatric patients in Nigeria: Report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country
title_sort couching in pediatric patients in nigeria: report of a medical socioeconomic dilemma in a developing country
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7787085/
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