Ahmed Valve Implantation with Adjunctive Mitomycin C and 5-Fluorouracil: Long-term Outcomes

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Alvarado, Jorge A ^a   Hollander, David A ^a   Juster, Richard P ^a   Lee, Lillian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROIDAL EFFUSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVAL DEHISCENCE; EYE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPHEMA; INJECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

EID: 47549115788     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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