Ab interno infrared laser trabecular ablation: Preliminary short-term results in patients with open-angle glaucoma

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 349-353

  Dietlein, Thomas S ^a   Jacobi, Philipp C ^a   Krieglstein, Günter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERBIUM YAG LASER; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHLEMM CANAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030994914     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00937282     Document Type: Article

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