Sutureless triplanar sclerotomy for 23-gauge vitrectomy

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 585-590

  Mahajan, Vinit B ^a,b   Tarantola, Ryan M ^a   Graff, Jordan M ^a   Boldt, H Culver ^a   Abramoff, Michael D ^a   Russell, Stephen R ^a   Folk, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Omics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; CANNULA; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVA; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; HYPOTONY MACULOPATHY; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA HOLE; SCLERA; SCLEROTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL SPONGE; SURGICAL WOUND; TRIPLANAR SCLEROTOMY; TROCAR; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; WOUND CLOSURE;

HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DISEASES; SCLERA; SCLEROSTOMY; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VITRECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79955777176     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.101     Document Type: Article

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