 Phacoemulsification
"Phacoemulsification" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A procedure for removal of the crystalline lens in cataract surgery in which an anterior capsulectomy is performed by means of a needle inserted through a small incision at the temporal limbus, allowing the lens contents to fall through the dilated pupil into the anterior chamber where they are broken up by the use of ultrasound and aspirated out of the eye through the incision. (Cline, et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed & In Focus 1993;1(1):1)
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D018918
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.540.825.249.704 E04.943.875
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Phacoemulsification" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Phacoemulsification" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phacoemulsification" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Soliman MK, Hardin JS, Jawed F, Uwaydat SH, Faramawi MF, Chu CJ, Yang YC, Sallam AB. A Database Study of Visual Outcomes and Intraoperative Complications of Postvitrectomy Cataract Surgery. Ophthalmology. 2018 11; 125(11):1683-1691.
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Norton JC, Goyal S. Patient characteristics and outcomes of retained lens fragments in the anterior chamber after uneventful phacoemulsification. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2018 Jul; 44(7):848-855.
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Yung ES, Moster MR, Sanvicente C, Pluta J, Rahmatnejad K, Patel AS, Williams A, Abramowitz B, Katz LJ, Pro M. Trypan Blue for the Assessment of Filtering Bleb Function During Cataract Surgery. J Glaucoma. 2018 03; 27(3):246-250.
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Chu CJ, Johnston RL, Buscombe C, Sallam AB, Mohamed Q, Yang YC. Risk Factors and Incidence of Macular Edema after Cataract Surgery: A Database Study of 81984 Eyes. Ophthalmology. 2016 Feb; 123(2):316-323.
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Yusuf IH, Izadi S, Fung TH, Sallam A, Patel CK. Multifocal Necrotizing Chorioretinitis Following Phacoemulsification Surgery. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2015 Jun; 23(3):261-5.
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