Photoablative laser-grid trabeculectomy in glaucoma filtering surgery: Histology and outflow facility measurements in porcine cadaver eyes

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-54

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THERMAL INJURY; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CADAVER; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 0033954680     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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