Single perioperative triamcinolone injection versus standard postoperative steroid drops after uneventful phacoemulsification surgery. Randomized controlled trial

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 468-474

  Negi, Anil K ^a   Browning, Andrew C ^a   Vernon, Stephen A ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE PLUS NEOMYCIN; FLUORESCEIN; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SCREENING; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJECTION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHOTON; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; SLIT LAMP; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BETAMETHASONE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MACULAR EDEMA, CYSTOID; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33646017067     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.12.102     Document Type: Article

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