title: Comparison of efficacy of longest, average, and shortest axial length measurements with a solid-tip ultrasound probe in predicting intraocular lens power.
abstract: The accuracy of intraocular lens power predictions was calculated for 93 eyes using the shortest, average, and longest of multiple solid-tip probe ultrasound axial length readings for each eye. Averaging the readings reduced the effect of corneal indentation. The single longest and average readings gave comparable results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Eye Foundation Hospital, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods