E-PTFE (Gore-Tex®) implant with or without low-dosage mitomycin-C as an adjuvant in penetrating glaucoma surgery: 2 year randomized clinical trial

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-321

  Cillino, Salvatore ^a   Zeppa, Lucio ^b   Di Pace, Francesco ^a   Casuccio, Alessandra ^a   Morreale, Daniele ^a   Bocchetta, Fabio ^a   Lodato, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Hospital S Giuseppe Moscati   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjuvants; e PTFE; Glaucoma surgery; Mitomycin C; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; MITOMYCIN C; STEROID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; OCULAR HYPOTENSION; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 44649173122     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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