Pars plana-modified Ahmed Glaucoma Valve for treatment of refractory glaucoma: A pilot study

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 336-341

  Schlote, Torsten ^a,b   Ziemssen, Focke ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Klinik Pallas   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ahmed valve; Refractory glaucoma; Tube shunt device

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHOROID DISEASE; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LIGATION; MALE; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; PATIENT MONITORING; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; TUBE; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 33646235417     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0008-5     Document Type: Article

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