Erbium:YAG laser deep sclerectomy: An alternative approach to glaucoma surgery

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 375-380

  Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^a,b   Kozobolis, Vassilios P ^c,d   Christodoulakis, Emmanouil V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Vardinoyannion Eye Inst of Crete   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERBIUM YAG LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; SAFETY; SCLERA; SCLEROTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLERA; SCLEROSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0041412644     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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