Trauma-induced extrusion of an Ex-PRESS glaucoma shunt presenting as an intraocular foreign body

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1270-1272

  Garg, Sunir J ^a   Kanitkar, Kunal ^b   Weichel, Eric ^b   Fischer, David ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EYE INJURY; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS COLOBOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; RADIOGRAPHY;

METAL;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 24944568530     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.9.1270     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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3. Wamsley S, Moster MR, Rai S, Alvim H, Fontanarosa J, Steinmann WC. Optonol ExPRESS miniature tube shunt in advanced glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2004;45 E-abstract 994.
4. Carmichael TR, Dahan E. Implantation of the Ex-PRESS miniature glaucoma device under a scleral flap in high-risk cases. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2004;45 E-abstract 1057.