Effect of additive preoperative latanoprost treatment on the outcome of filtration surgery

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1029-1034

  Berthold, Silke ^a   Pfeiffer, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filtration surgery; Latanoprost; Preoperative therapy; Scarring

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; GENTAMICIN; LATANOPROST; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTAGLANDINS F, SYNTHETIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746888636     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0150-0     Document Type: Article

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