The first report on intermediate-term outcome of Ex-PRESS® glaucoma filtration device implanted under scleral flap in Japanese patients

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1063-1066

  Sugiyama, Tetsuya ^a   Shibata, Maho ^a   Kojima, Shota ^a   Ueki, Mari ^a   Ikeda, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Efficacy; Ex PRESS; Japanese; Miniature glaucoma device

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HUMAN; HYPOTONY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPANESE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCLERA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 79961245204     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S23129     Document Type: Article

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