Titanium:Sapphire laser trabeculoplasty versus argon laser trabeculoplasty in patients with open-angle glaucoma

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 264-269

  Goldenfeld, Modi ^a,b   Melamed, Shlomo ^a,b   Simon, Gabriel ^c   Ben Simon, Guy J ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Simon Ophthalmology Institute   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASER; TRABECULECTOMY; TRABECULOPLASTY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67149108166     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20090430-07     Document Type: Article

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