A randomized prospective study of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment cases treated with cryopexy versus frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser-retinopexy during episcleral surgery

Retina

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 878-882

  Avitabile, Teresio ^a   Bartolotta, Giuseppina ^a   Torrisi, Benedetto ^a   Reibaldi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryopexy; Episcleral surgery; Laser retinopexy; Macular hole; Vitreoretinal proliferation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPEXY; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; NEODYMIUM LASER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETINOPEXY; RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINA DETACHMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DETACHMENT; SCLERAL BUCKLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 10644279905     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200412000-00006     Document Type: Article

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