Update on aqueous shunts

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 284-290

  Gedde, Steven J ^a   Parrish, Richard K ^a   Budenz, Donald L ^a   Heuer, Dale K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous shunts; Glaucoma drainage devices; Glaucoma surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; FIBRIN GLUE; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C; POLITEF; POLYMACON; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CILIARY SULCUS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICE SAFETY; DIPLOPIA; DRUG UTILIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; EYE DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICARE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHTHISIS BULBI; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; SCAR; SLOW DRUG RELEASE; SRI LANKA; STRABISMUS; SUTURING METHOD; TRABECULOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 80054907933     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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