Sub-Tenon anaesthesia: Reduction in subconjunctival haemorrhage with controlled bipolar conjunctival cautery

Eye

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1387-1390

  Gauba, V ^a   Saleh, G M ^b   Watson, K ^a   Chung, A ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; LIDOCAINE; PROXYMETACAINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CAUTERIZATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA;

EID: 35948964057     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6702447     Document Type: Article

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