Surgical results of bleb revision with scleral patch graft for late-onset bleb complications

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-23

  Halkiadakis, Ioannis ^a   Lim, Pauline ^b   Moroi, Sayoko E ^b  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEB FAILURE; BLEB LEAKAGE; BLEB REVISION; CATARACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOTONOUS RETINA MACULOPATHY; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOPATHY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REOPERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SCLERA; SCLERA PATCH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE GRAFT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 12344300383     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20050101-02     Document Type: Article

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