Lack of effect of prophylactic gentamicin treatment on intraocular and extraocular fluid cultures after pars plana vitrectomy

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 497-501

  Gelfand, Yuval A ^a,b   Mezer, Eedy ^a   Linn, Shai ^a   Miller, Benjamin ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VITRECTOMY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONJUNCTIVA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0031798663     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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