Management of primary congenital glaucoma by trabeculectomy in Nigeria

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-52

  Onwasigwe, E N ^a   Ezegwui, I R ^b   Onwasigwe, C N ^a   Aghaji, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b ENUGU STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA HAZINESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; REVIEW; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; CORNEA OPACITY; EVALUATION; GLAUCOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47549110983     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532808X270671     Document Type: Review

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