The role of small-incision cataract surgery in combined cataract and glaucoma surgery

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 2-10

  Heston, Jonathan P A ^a   Gimbel, Howard V ^a   Crichton, Andrew C S ^a  

^a GIMBEL EYE CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETABOLITE; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; LENS IMPLANT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0029758418     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-199604000-00002     Document Type: Review

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