Novel synthetic meshwork for glaucoma treatment. I. Design and preliminary in vitro and in vivo evaluation of various expanded poly(tetrafluoroethylene) materials

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 260-269

  Jallet, V ^a   Gautier, S E ^a   Parel, J M ^a,c   Matsui, T ^a,d   Haefliger, I ^a   Kondo, H ^a,d   Kato, H ^a,d   Savoldelli, M ^b   Pouliquen, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; Expanded poly (tetrafluoroethylene); Filtration surgery; Glaucoma; Ophthalmic implant

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; POROUS MATERIALS; SURGERY;

FILTRATION SURGERY; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPHTHALMIC IMPLANTS;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA; IMPLANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; RABBIT; TRABECULECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RABBITS;

EID: 0032819930     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(199911)47:2<260::AID-JBM17>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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