A comparison of postoperative complications from pressure-ridge Molteno implants versus Molteno implants with suture ligation

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 905-910

  Gerber, Steve L ^a,b   Cantor, Louis B ^a   Sponsel, William E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, NEOVASCULAR; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLTENO IMPLANTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030662330     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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