Excimer laser trabeculotomy: A new, minimally invasive procedure for patients with glaucoma

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 670-676

  Wilmsmeyer, Sonja ^a,b   Philippin, Heiko ^a,b   Funk, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excimer laser trabeculotomy; Glaucoma; Glaucoma surgery; Photoablative laser; Trabecular ablation; Trabecular meshwork

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CATARACT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS DISEASE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PILOT STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN OCCLUSION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CATARACT; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER SURGERY; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33745233469     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0136-y     Document Type: Article

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