Efficacy of amniotic membrane-assisted bleb revision for elevated intraocular pressure after filtering surgery

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 839-843

  Kiuchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Yanagi, Masahide ^a   Nakamura, Takao ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Otemae Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Filtering surgery; Filtration bleb revision; Mitomycin C

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956107954     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s12311     Document Type: Article

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