Postoperative complications associated with 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 270-275

  Gupta, Omesh P ^a   Weichel, Eric D ^b   Regillo, Carl D ^a,c   Fineman, Mitchell S ^a   Kaiser, Richard S ^a   Ho, Allen C ^a   McNamara, J Arch ^a   Vander, James F ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CILIARY DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETINA TEAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE COURSE; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPOTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 34547683880     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20070701-01     Document Type: Article

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