 Cataract
"Cataract" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Partial or complete opacity on or in the lens or capsule of one or both eyes, impairing vision or causing blindness. The many kinds of cataract are classified by their morphology (size, shape, location) or etiology (cause and time of occurrence). (Dorland, 27th ed)
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D002386
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.510.245
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| Concept/Terms |
Cataract, Membranous- Cataract, Membranous
- Cataracts, Membranous
- Membranous Cataract
- Membranous Cataracts
- Pseudoaphakia
- Pseudoaphakias
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| 1980 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1981 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1984 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cataract" by people in Profiles.
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He L, Donnelly WJ, Stevenson SB, Glasser A. Saccadic lens instability increases with accommodative stimulus in presbyopes. J Vis. 2010 Apr 27; 10(4):14.1-16.
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Donnelly WJ, Applegate RA. Influence of exposure time and pupil size on a Shack-Hartmann metric of forward scatter. J Refract Surg. 2005 Sep-Oct; 21(5):S547-51.
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Donnelly WJ, Pesudovs K, Marsack JD, Sarver EJ, Applegate RA. Quantifying scatter in Shack-Hartmann images to evaluate nuclear cataract. J Refract Surg. 2004 Sep-Oct; 20(5):S515-22.
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Braganza A, Thomas R, George T, Mermoud A. Management of phacolytic glaucoma: experience of 135 cases. Indian J Ophthalmol. 1998 Sep; 46(3):139-43.
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Thomas R, Braganza A, George T, Mermoud A. Vitreous opacities in phacolytic glaucoma. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers. 1996 Oct; 27(10):839-43.
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Thomas R, Kuriakose T, George T. Glaucoma like defect on automated perimetry caused by cataract. Indian J Ophthalmol. 1996 Sep; 44(3):167-8.
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Goosey JD, Tuan WM, Garcia CA. A lipid peroxidative mechanism for posterior subcapsular cataract formation in the rabbit: a possible model for cataract formation in tapetoretinal diseases. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1984 May; 25(5):608-12.
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Zigler JS, Goosey JD. Singlet oxygen as a possible factor in human senile nuclear cataract development. Curr Eye Res. 1984 Jan; 3(1):59-65.
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Zigler JS, Goosey JD. Photosensitized oxidation in the ocular lens: evidence for photosensitizers endogenous to the human lens. Photochem Photobiol. 1981 Jun; 33(6):869-74.
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Goosey JD, Zigler JS, Matheson IB, Kinoshita JH. Effects of singlet oxygen on human lens crystallins in vitro. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1981 May; 20(5):679-83.
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