Canaloplasty in one eye compared with viscocanalostomy in the contralateral eye in patients with bilateral open-angle glaucoma

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-134

  Koerber, Norbert Josef ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Augencentrum Koeln   (Germany)

Author keywords

canaloplasty; microcatheter; nonpenetrating glaucoma surgery; open angle glaucoma; Schlemm canal

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CANALOPLASTY; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHLEMM CANAL; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCOCANALOSTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCOSUPPLEMENTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84857192497     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e31820277c0     Document Type: Article

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