Endoscopically controlled erbium: YAG goniopuncture versus trabeculectomy: Effect on intraocular pressure in combination with cataract surgery

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 94-100

  Feltgen, Nicolas ^a   Mueller, Heiko ^a   Ott, Beat ^b   Frenz, Martin ^b   Funk, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; EYE SYNECHIA; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; ENDOSCOPY; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037313521     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0557-9     Document Type: Article

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