25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy: Variations in incision architecture

Retina

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-455

  Singh, Ajay ^a   Stewart, Jay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

25 gauge vitrectomy; Endophthalmitis; Oblique; Sutureless; Wound architecture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANNULA; CONJUNCTIVA; EYE SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCISION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCLERA; SCLERA DISEASE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURELESS VITRECTOMY; TISSUE SECTION; TROCAR; VITRECTOMY; WOUND; WOUND HEALING; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; VITREOUS BODY;

CADAVER; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PILOT PROJECTS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 66149113734     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e31819c6347     Document Type: Article

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