Donor scleral patch for treating hypotony due to leaking and/or overfiltering blebs

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 492-496

  Harizman, Noga ^a   Ben Cnaan, Ran ^a   Goldenfeld, Modi ^a   Levkovitch Verbin, Hana ^a   Melamed, Shlomo ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Donor scleral patch; Hypotony; Overfiltering blebs

Indexed keywords

SUTURE MATERIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILTERING OPERATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; SCLEROTOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPOTENSION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE DONORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 27944453914     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ijg.0000185618.98915.d2     Document Type: Article

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