Evaluation of amniotic membrane transplantation as an adjunct to medical therapy as compared with medical therapy alone in acute ocular burns

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1963-1969

  Tamhane, Amol ^a   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^a   Biswas, Nihar R ^b   Pandey, Ravindra M ^b   Sharma, Namrata ^a   Titiyal, Jeewan S ^a   Tandon, Radhika ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ASCORBIC ACID; CITRATE SODIUM; HOMATROPINE; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; TIMOLOL MALEATE;

ADULT; AMNION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA BURN; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIZATION; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACRIMAL DUCT; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMBLEPHARON; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CITRATES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE BURNS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEARS; TROPANES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 27644571049     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2005.05.022     Document Type: Article

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