Amniotic membrane transplantation for late-onset bleb leakage with scleritis

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-58

  Kiuchi, Takahiro ^a   Okamoto, Hajime ^b   Ishii, Kotaro ^a   Oshika, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Gakuen Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane transplantation; Bleb leakage; Scleritis; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROMETHOLONE; LEVOFLOXACIN;

ADULT; AMNION; AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLERITIS; SLIT LAMP; TRABECULOTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMNION; BIOLOGICAL DRESSINGS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLERITIS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 13844254045     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-004-0136-1     Document Type: Article

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