Topical anesthesia with benoxinate 0.4% for pterygium surgery

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 219-222

  Frucht Pery, Joseph ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; MITOMYCIN C; OXYBUPROCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXCISION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RETROBULBAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCAINE; PTERYGIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030970751     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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