Wipe-out: A complication of glaucoma surgery or just a blast from the past?

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 705-706

  Moster, Marlene R ^a   Moster, Mark L ^a,b  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

CENTRAL SCOTOMA; EDITORIAL; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PARACENTESIS; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WIPE OUT;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLINDNESS; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MITOMYCIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 26844524336     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.05.024     Document Type: Editorial

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