Safety and efficacy of intraoperative intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide injection after phacoemulsification in cases of uveitic cataract

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1613-1618

  Dada, Tanuj ^a   Dhawan, Munish ^a   Garg, Satpal ^a   Nair, Soman ^a   Mandal, Subrata ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUROCORT; CIPROFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC ANTERIOR UVEITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE UVEITIS; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UVEITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; CATARACT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR; UVEITIS, INTERMEDIATE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 34548019480     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.04.029     Document Type: Article

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