Long-term follow-up of initially successful trabeculectomy with 5-fluorouracil injections

Ophthalmology

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1921-1924

  Suzuki, Ricardo ^a   Dickens, Christopher J ^a,d   Iwach, Andrew G ^a,c   Hoskins Jr, H Dunbar ^b,c   Hetherington Jr, John ^b,c   Juster, Richard P ^c   Wong, Patricia C ^a   Klufas, Martha T ^a   Leong, Clifford J ^a,b,c   Nguyen, Ngoc ^a  

^a Glaucoma Res and Education Group   (United States)

^b Glaucoma Research Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Reprint Requests to Christopher J Dickens   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036789501     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01186-7     Document Type: Article

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