Difference between bevel-up and bevel-down 23-gauge one-step incisions: Analysis of anterior chamber optical coherence tomography and IOP

Retina

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 521-523

  Magalhães Jr , Octaviano ^a,b   De ÁVila, Mariana Pereira ^a,b   Maia, Maurício ^b   Nosé, Ricardo ^a   Costa, Elaine Fiod ^b   Rodrigues, Eduardo Büchelle ^b   Farah, Michel Eid ^b   Nose W ^b  

^a S Casa Misericordia Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Surgery; Vitrectomy; Vitreoretinal surgery; Vitreous body

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CILIARY DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VITRECTOMY; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

ANTERIOR CHAMBER; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICROSURGERY; SCLEROSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VITRECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77949355732     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181a2c091     Document Type: Article

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