Three-Year Follow-up of the Tube Versus Trabeculectomy Study

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 670-684

  Gedde, Steven J ^a   Schiffman, Joyce C ^a   Feuer, William J ^a   Herndon, Leon W ^b   Brandt, James D ^c   Budenz, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CHOROIDAL EFFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA ULCER; DIPLOPIA; DYSESTHESIA; EFFUSION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; HYPOTONY MACULOPATHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRITIS; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PIGMENT GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION GLAUCOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINOPATHY; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 70350471224     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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