What pressure is exerted on the retina by heavy tamponade agents?

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 474-477

  Wong, David ^a   Williams, Rachel ^b   Stappler, Theodor ^a   Groenewald, Carl ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROACETIC ACID; PERFLUORODECALIN; PERFLUOROOCTANE; PERFLUOROPHENANTHRENE; SILICONE OIL; WATER;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; PERIMETRY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VALIDATION PROCESS; VITREOUS BODY;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PRESSURE; RETINA; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 20444457134     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-1047-z     Document Type: Article

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