Erbium:YAG laser trabecular ablation (LTA) in the surgical treatment of glaucoma

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 104-110

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure; Laser surgery; Trabecular meshwork

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031693245     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1998)23:2<104::AID-LSM8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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