Silicone oil pupillary block: An exception to combined argon-Nd:YAG laser iridotomy success in angle-closure glaucoma

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 883-888

  Zalta, Alan H ^a,b   Boyle, Nariman S ^a   Zalta, Alyson K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; PREDNISONE; SILICONE OIL; STEROID; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; EYE CARE; HUMAN; IRIDOTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEXAMETHASONE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDECTOMY; IRIS DISEASES; LASER SURGERY; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONE OILS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 34447544669     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.7.883     Document Type: Review

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