Filtering bleb functionality: A clinical, anterior segment optical coherence tomography and in vivo confocal microscopy study

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 308-317

  Ciancaglini, Marco ^a,b   Carpineto, Paolo ^a   Agnifili, Luca ^a   Nubile, Mario ^a   Lanzini, Manuela ^a   Fasanella, Vincenzo ^a   Mastropasqua, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anterior segment OCT; Confocal microscopy; Filtering blebs; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYST; FEMALE; FILTERING BLEB; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLISTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SECRETION; TRABECULECTOMY;

AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLISTER; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 47749104146     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e31815c3a19     Document Type: Article

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