Two-step oblique incision during 25-gauge vitrectomy reduces incidence of postoperative hypotony

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 693-696

  Inoue, Makoto ^a,b   Shinoda, Kei ^a,c   Shinoda, Hajime ^a   Kawamura, Ryosuke ^a   Suzuki, Kotaro ^a   Ishida, Susumu ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

25 gauge vitrectomy; Hypotony; Obliqueincision; Two step

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANK SUM TEST; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VITRECTOMY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPOTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 36049051630     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01580.x     Document Type: Article

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