Collaborative initial Glaucoma Treatment Study: A summary of results to date

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-111

  Feiner, Leonard ^a   Piltz Seymour, Jody R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure; Randomized clinical trial; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETABOLITE; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; TRABECULOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; CATARACT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0037564121     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-200304000-00010     Document Type: Review

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