Clinical findings on the use of long-term heavy tamponades (semifluorinated alkanes and their oligomers) in complicated retinal detachment surgery

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 965-971

  Roider, Johann ^a,b   Hoerauf, Hans ^c   Kobuch, Karin ^b   Gabel, Veit Peter ^b  

^a University of Regensburg ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; OLIGOMER;

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISPERSION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LASER COAGULATION; LENS CAPSULE; MICROSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DETACHMENT SURGERY; RETINA NECROSIS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISION; VITREORETINOPATHY;

EID: 0036947951     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0574-8     Document Type: Article

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