A donor corneal patch graft for an incompetent scleral flap following trabeculectomy

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 878-880

  Rumelt, Shimon ^a   Rehany, Uri ^a  

^a WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPIVEFRINE; METHAZOLAMIDE; MITOMYCIN C; PILOCARPINE; TIMOLOL MALEATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; OCULAR HYPOTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLERA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE DONORS; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 0029845919     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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