Needle revision of failed filtering blebs using 5- fluorouracil and a combined ab-externo and ab-interno approach

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-51

  Pasternack, James J ^a,b   Wand, Martin ^a,b,d   Shields, M Bruce ^c   Abraham, Deepa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DICLOFENAC; FLUOROURACIL; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; CHOROID DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFUSION; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR FIBROSIS; PARACENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCAR; SCLERA DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLUOROURACIL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; OSTOMY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 12844259428     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00061198-200502000-00009     Document Type: Review

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