Clinicopathologic Features of Excised Mitomycin Filtering Blebs

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 74-79

  Hutchinson, Amy K ^a   Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a   Brown, Reay H ^a   McManus, Paul E ^a   Bradley, Charles K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPHEMA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULOPATHY; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CASE REPORT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MITOMYCINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRABECULECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0027980023     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1994.01090130084023     Document Type: Article

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