Foreign body granulomas secondary to retained sponge fragment following mitomycin C trabeculectomy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 178-181

  Al Shahwan, Sami ^a   Edward, Deepak P ^b  

^a KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; MITOMYCIN C; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GLAUCOMA; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL SPONGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL SPONGES; TRABECULECTOMY; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 14944363304     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-1011-y     Document Type: Article

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