Prophylactic treatment of the fellow eye of patients with retinal detachment: A retrospective study

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 191-196

  Avitabile, Teresio ^a   Bonfiglio, Vincenza ^a   Reibaldi, Michele ^a   Torrisi, Benedetto ^a   Reibaldi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DETACHMENT SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERAL BUCKLING;

EID: 1842830282     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0783-9     Document Type: Article

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