Predicting long-term results of trabeculectomy from early postoperative intraocular pressure levels

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 355-360

  Asamoto, Ayako ^a   Yablonski, Michael E ^a   Matsushita, Misuzu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029926447     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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