Macular hole surgery with air tamponade: Does air suffice for short-term tamponade?;Makulalochchirurgie mit Lufttamponade: Ist Luft als kurzzeitige Tamponade ausreichend?

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1043-1050

  Gesser, C ^a   Eckert, T ^a   Eckardt, U ^a   Porkert, U ^a   Eckardt, C ^a  

^a Eye Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air tamponade; Bridge formation; Macular hole; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Prone positioning

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REOPERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TEAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; AIR PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; REOPERATION; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREORETINAL SURGERY;

EID: 79956189394     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00347-010-2171-2     Document Type: Article

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