Dynamic Evaluation of Sutureless Vitrectomy Wounds: An Optical Coherence Tomography and Histopathology Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2221-2228

  Taban, Mehran ^a   Ventura, Alexandre A C M ^a   Sharma, Sumit ^a   Kaiser, Peter K ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED SALT SOLUTION; INDIAN INK;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CADAVER; CANNULA; CONJUNCTIVA; ENUCLEATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INCISION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCLEROTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; VITRECTOMY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICROSURGERY; RABBITS; SCLERA; SCLEROSTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITRECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 56549105025     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.08.027     Document Type: Article

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