A full-thickness scleral graft for the surgical management of a late filtration bleb leak

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 461-468

  Kosmin, Alan S ^a   Wishart, Peter K ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIPHORA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SCLERA; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030991927     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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