Concave trabeculo-Descemet's membrane as an early sign of viscocanalostomy failure

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 826-831

  Negri Aranguren, Ignacio C ^a,d   Devoto, Martin ^a   Dolzani, Dante ^a   Izurieta Y Sea, Soledad ^a   Grigera, Daniel E ^b   Acosta, Jorge ^c  

^a Consultores Oftalmológicos ^*  (Argentina)

^b Hospital Oftalmologico Santa Lucia   (Argentina)

^c Ctro Estud Medicos Invest CNQ   (Argentina)

^d NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; VISCOCANALOSTOMY;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PUNCTURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 16544391337     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2003.08.017     Document Type: Article

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