Efficacy of argon laser trabeculoplasty: 3-year preliminary results of a prospective placebo-controlled study

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 354-358

  Ustundag, Can ^a   Diestelhorst, Michae ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRABECULOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; DICLOFENAC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0030955965     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00937283     Document Type: Article

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