Phacotrabeculectomy with 'smile' incision, punch, and single releasable suture

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 570-574

  Manners, Timothy D ^a,b  

^a WEST NORWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANT; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 0031849719     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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