Autologous blood injection for late-onset filtering bleb leak

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 36-40

  Burnstein, Alan ^a   WuDunn, Darrell ^a   Ishii, Yoko ^a   Jonescu Cuypers, Christian ^a   Cantor, Louis B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; POVIDONE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TECHNIQUE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034950075     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(01)00873-X     Document Type: Article

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