Preoperative injection of mitomycin C in combined pterygium and cataract surgery

Cornea

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 406-409

  Avisar, Rahamim ^a   Bar, Shmuel ^b   Weinberger, Dov ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bare selera; Cataract; Mitomycin C; Pterygium

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; EYE DROPS; LIDOCAINE; MITOMYCIN C; OXYBUPROCAINE; PHENIMIXIN; POLYMYXIN B;

ADULT; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE RISK;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MITOMYCIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PTERYGIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 17844388596     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000148290.30452.2f     Document Type: Article

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