Recent Trends in the Management of Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-67

  Sodhi, Akrit ^a   Leung, Loh Shan ^a   Do, Diana V ^a   Gower, Emily W ^a   Schein, Oliver D ^a   Handa, James T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

pars plana vitrectomy; pneumatic retinopexy; retinal detachment; rhegmatogenous retinal detachment; scleral buckle technique; surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CAUTERIZATION; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EYE INFECTION; EYE INJURY; GLAUCOMA; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MARSHALL SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; STICKLER SYNDROME; VITRECTOMY;

HUMANS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; SCLERAL BUCKLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 38049091059     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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