MIRAgel: Hydrolytic degradation and long-term observations

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 511-514

  Roldán Pallarés, Manuela ^a,b   Hernández Montero, Julián ^a   Llanes, Felipe ^a   Fernández Rubio, José E ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EXPLANT; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROGEL; HYDROLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYHYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERAL BUCKLING; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247150194     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.4.511     Document Type: Article

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