A "development aid" approach to Third World surgical blindness
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Ophthalmic Surgery
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Establishing local production of intraocular lenses (IOLs) and sutures should be as much a part of surgical blindness prevention assistance to Third World countries as teaching extracapsular cataract extraction with IOL implantation, because it would increase financial independence and encourage economic growth.