The use of amniotic membrane in trabeculectomy for the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma: A prospective study

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 205-212

  Stavrakas, Panagiotis ^a   Georgopoulos, Gerasimos ^a   Milia, Maria ^a   Papaconstantinou, Dimitris ^a   Bafa, Maria ^b   Stavrakas, Efthymios ^b   Moschos, Mihalis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Glaucoma filtering bleb; Primary open angle glaucoma; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; ANTIMETABOLITE;

ADULT; AGED; AMNION; AMNION TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLEB MORPHOLOGY; BLEB SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL RISK; TRABECULECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84857006653     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S27187     Document Type: Article

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