Dysfunctional filtering blebs

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-126

  Azuara Blanco, Augusto ^a,b   Katz, L Jay ^a  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blebitis; Complications of trabeculectomy; Encapsulated blebs; Failed blebs; Filration surgery; Filtering bleb; Glaucoma; Hypotony; Leaking blebs; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; AMIKACIN; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; BACITRACIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE INHIBITOR; CEFAZOLIN; CYANOACRYLATE; ENBUCRILATE; FIBRIN GLUE; FLUOROURACIL; HYDROXYICOSATETRAENOIC ACID; LIPOXYGENASE; LUBRICATING AGENT; MITOMYCIN C; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLASMINOGEN; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; SILVER NITRATE; STEROID; SULFAFURAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN;

ARGON LASER; BLOOD; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTACT LENS; CRYOTHERAPY; DIATHERMY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INFECTION; INTRACAMERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NEODYMIUM LASER; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLIT LAMP; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRABECULECTOMY; VITRECTOMY;

GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLEROSTOMY;

EID: 0031689054     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(98)00025-3     Document Type: Review

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