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[Local prophylactic measures to prevent postoperative infection after cataract operations (author's transl)]
Klinische Monatsblatter Fur Augenheilkunde
|February 1, 1978
Abstract:
The Allen procedure to prevent postoperative endophthalmitis has been applied in cataract operations since 1973. Postoperative endophthalmitis has been observed through the years 1965--1973 in 0.49% of registered cases, while the infection rate has now been lowered to 0.067%.