Combined 25-gauge vitrectomy and posterior tube shunt placement for advanced glaucoma

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-81

  Reichstein, David ^a   Kammer, Jeffrey ^a   Recchia, Franco ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; HYPOTONY MACULOPATHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 78650829212     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.04.033     Document Type: Article

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