Update on the subconjunctival THC:YAG (holmium) laser sclerostomy ab externo clinical trial: A 4-year report

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 823-831

  Iwach, Andrew G ^a,b,c,d   Hoskins Jr , H Dunbar ^b,c   Mora, Justin S ^a,b,c   Dickens, Christopher J ^a,b   Drake, Michael V ^c   Gaffney, Michelle M ^a   Nguyen, Ngoc ^a,b   Wong, Patricia C ^a   Tran, Henry ^a   Ma, Albert S ^a  

^a Glaucoma Res and Education Group   (United States)

^b Glaucoma Research Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d 490 Post St ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUOROURACIL; MAXITROL; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; TROPICAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLEROSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10144237201     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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