Risk factors associated with sclerotomy leakage and postoperative hypotony after 23-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy

Retina

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 456-463

  Woo, Se Joon ^a,b,c   Park, Kyu Hyung ^a,b   Hwang, Jeong Min ^a,b   Kim, Jeong Hun ^a   Yu, Young Suk ^a   Chung, Hum ^a,c  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Biomedical Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

23 gauge; Hypotony; Leakage; Transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy; Vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROTOMY LEAKAGE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SUTURE; TRANSCONJUNCTIVAL SUTURELESS VITRECTOMY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; ADOLESCENT; CONJUNCTIVA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SUTURING METHOD; TIME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONJUNCTIVA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; OCULAR HYPOTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCLEROSTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149099700     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318195cb28     Document Type: Article

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